Henry Moore Vintage 1984 French Art Exhibition Poster

HENRY MOORE
Seated Woman

27" x 23" 

An except on Formalism from Dr. Charles Cramer and Dr. Kim Grant: "Certain artists in the twentieth century, chose to showcase rather than disguise their materials. In 1934, British sculptor Henry Moore put it this way: “Every material has its own individual qualities … Stone, for example, is hard and concentrated and should not be falsified to look like soft flesh … It should keep its hard tense stoniness.” This imperative to be ‘true to one’s materials’ became an important critical tenet of twentieth-century art."