摩尔(1898～1986年)
Moore, Henry
英国雕刻家和画家。煤矿工人之子。在第一次世界大战中受伤，复原後获准进入皇家艺术学院学习。其早期作品受曾在巴黎的博物馆所见的马雅人雕刻影响很深。约从1931年起，他开始尝试抽象艺术，将抽象形态和人体形态结合，有时乾脆不考虑人体形态。第二次世界大战期间题材日渐稀少，他主要描绘伦敦地下防空洞里的人群。受委托创作《圣母子》以及为一个家族做雕塑改变了他抽象的风格，显得更加人性化，奠定了他的国际声誉。1950年代尝试用青铜雕刻有棱角的站立人物。许多作品都有纪念意义，他本人也以一系列裸体雕塑闻名。他受委托而创作的作品主要有联合国教科文组织巴黎总部的雕塑（1957～1958）、林肯表演艺术中心（1963～1965）和美国国家画廊（1978）。
English version：
1898～1986年
Moore, Henry
English sculptor and graphic artist. The son of a coal miner, he was enabled to study at the Royal College of Art by a rehabilitation grant after being wounded in World War I. His early works were strongly influenced by the Maya sculpture he saw in a Paris museum. From c. 1931 on he experimented with abstract art, combining abstract shapes with the human figure and at times leaving the human figure behind altogether. When materials grew scarce during World War II, he concentrated on drawings of Londoners sheltering from bombs in Underground stations. Commissions for a Madonna and Child and a family group turned his style from abstraction to the more humanistic approach that became the basis of his international reputation. He returned to experimentation in the 1950s with angular, pierced standing figures in bronze. Much of his work is monumental, and he is particularly well known for a series of reclining nudes. Among his major commissions were sculptures for UNESCO's Paris headquarters (1957-58), Lincoln Center (1963-65), and the National Gallery of Art (1978).