RockNerd

By RockNerd

Any More For Any Moore?

You've been on the edge of your seat, haven't you?
Congratulations to the ever wonderful bittersweet for correctly identifying yesterday's mystery sculptor as Henry Moore. Cheers, M'Dear!
Moore said "I think Architecture is the poorer for the absence of sculpture and I also think that the sculptor, by not collaborating with the architect, misses opportunities of his work being used socially and being seen by a wider public".
However, the screen on the Time-Life Building, in London's fashionable New Bond Street, is about 30ft up the wall & seen by virtually nobody!
I'd never have found it myself, if I hadn't been told where to look!

Today we have some more Moore, this time from Battersea Park. "Three Standing Figures" (1947) was apparently inspired after Moore saw the way people had huddled together in air-raid shelters a few years before. He tried to give the figures as sense of "release, but with apprehension", aware they are outside, scanning the distance.
In the park they look across the lake towards a sculpture by Moore's contemporary, Barbara Hepworth.
Hmm...another blip opportunity!

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