\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 British sculptor.\par
Moore moved to London to attend the Royal College after an initial training at the Leeds School of Ar
t. Here he was able to study the works of archaic and classical sculpture on show in the British Museum.\par
He was awarded a scholarship in 1925 and went to France, Italy and Spain, returning home with a cultural experience that ranged from Renaissanc
e art to the avant-garde. It was from this that he developed his unique style. The sculptures from this period, such as \i Reclining Figure\i0 (1930, National Gallery, Ottawa) and the \i Mother and Child\i0 (1932, Sainsbury Collection, London), are c
haracterized by an archaic style.\par
After a brief diversion in Surrealism, he turned to abstractionism, often combining elements of the two avant-garde movements.\par
From 1940 on his sculpture was characterized by holes, which assumed the same impor
tance as the solid masses. The forms and their surrounding space interpenetrate and complete one another, both in the small works, chiefly reclining figures and groups in which the human figure is subjected to a highly suggestive process of deformation,
and in the monumental ones, intended for open spaces.
