The Sculptures of Henry Moore & Anthony Caro

"The Sculptures of Henry Moore and Anthony Caro Raymond Warburton" Henry Moore established his unique approach to sculpture based on Michelangelo, Cubism, abstraction and central and south American Aztec and Mayan cultures. Anthony Caro studied sculpture in the 1940s, taught by traditional sculptors. He later became Moore’s studio assistant for two years. In 1959, influenced by American abstract artists, Caro changed his approach, using sheets of steel to produce non-figurative sculptures. Subsequently Caro publicly criticized Moore for being a showman and thwarting younger talent. Moore took it badly and relations between them never fully recovered. This lecture traces the career of both Moore and Caro, and describes their time together, their falling out, and their respective impacts on modern sculpture.