Henry Moore is one of the most well known artists of the twentieth century. This exhibition focuses on his career from the 1920s to the early 1960s and challenges the familiar image of the artist. He emerged in the 1920s as a radical, experimental and avant-garde figure and was rapidly established as the leading British sculptor of his generation. His main subject was the human body, through which he believed ‘one can express more completely one’s feelings about the world than in any other way’.
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Starting from an idea from a German gallery, this exhibition explores the European dimensions of the lives of young people and proposes that Arts and culture can help children and young people explore and deal with their issues. Artworks made by young people from Dortmund were displayed alongside those from Leeds.
Writing her label for her artwork Threads of Life Stacy Broadbent said,
“Life at whatever age can be strong, delicate, warm, happy or tense. Threads worked over each other relate to ideas and repetition in life. Threads left loose at the end represent journeys and life’s loose ends. Colours symbolise happier or darker periods in life’s threads.”
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‘I liked the idea of looking at a painting that you could not look at just from the front but had to move around.’ Sean Scully
Sean Scully is an abstract painter. From the 1970s, he restricted his use of shape to lines, stripes, and blocks of colour and made massive compositions. His artworks of the 1980’s have a visual tension, as the contrast between horizontals and verticals, strong and neutral colours, and symmetry and asymmetry was heightened.
Sean Scully makes paintings from interconnecting panels, which appear to project or receed from the space of the viewer. They seem to be physically three-dimensional when they are not.
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