I visited the Tate Britain gallery in London, along with the Hepworth and Wakefield and felt massively inspired by Moore's work. From only knowing his work in from reference to researching Barbara Hepworth and their work alongside each other.
He gained his reputation as an artist for his war drawings, mainly of families during the bombings in the underground. Many of his sculptures of revolved around family figures, of mother and child, or parents and child. He represented a hope in the art world for a post-war Britain, moving towards modern times through things such as the welfare state, and the family almost being a powerful metaphor for this.
His work consists of many human like forms, often hollowed out and skeletal, which in some cases caused controversy to represent a 'post-war Britain'. His work was always made on small scale first, deriving from his drawings and then enlarged. He often said '' Monumentality has nothing to do with scale, it's the vision behind the work''. Moore's work often used string, following the curvatures and shapes of his sculptures, accentuating their form. It almost makes them look like a puzzle piece, like they've been engraved, leading me to imagine what the individual sections would look like a sculptures.
Moving forward I would like to take some photos of my own body's shape and form in different positions or areas and practise drawing in 3D, maybe creating small figures or patterns from them.