Happy Birthday to Henry Moore, born on this day in 1898! During the 1950s he devised many compo
Happy Birthday to Henry Moore, born on this day in 1898! During the 1950s he devised many compositions of seated figures, usually in pairs or groups, which allude to the renewal of life in postwar Britain. The couple depicted in “King and Queen,” however, has greater public significance. The subject emerged as Moore worked on figures inspired by an Egyptian Seated Royal Couple from the eighteenth century B.C., a sculpture displayed in the British Museum. The serenity and stateliness of Moore’s figures, completed in the same year as the young Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, may also reaffirm Britain’s monarchy as a symbol of continuity and triumph after the country’s near destruction by war. Explore more: http://s.si.edu/2v4Jk1W -- source link
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