(Castleford, UK, 1898 – Much Hadham, UK, 1986)
Moore is one of the mainstays of the revival of English sculpture and his influence is universal. The son of a miner, he first became a teacher, and later studied classical sculpture in Leeds and London. After assimilating cultures, from pre-Columbian art to Surrealism, during his travels across Europe and America, he remained deeply attached to his native country and its landscapes, for which he conceived his work, which was intended for the open air. It is not easy to divide his work into periods, as he frequently returned to earlier conceptions, while maintaining the habit of expressing himself in both figurative and afigurative terms. Perhaps his most important contribution lies in his early concern to solve the problem of the perforated volume, not stopping there, but seeking every means of relating – and aesthetically evaluating – the connections between the interior and exterior surfaces of the work.