In these drawings Henry Moore describes the aged body. He made a series of drawings of his own hands when he was eighty-one and suffering from ill-health, and he did more of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s gnarled joints. ‘Hands can convey so much’ he said, ‘they can beg or refuse, take or give, be open or clenched, show content or anxiety. They can be young or old, beautiful or deformed’.
Moore believed his prints were part of a larger history of sculpture and painting, in which artists have shown feelings through their portrayal of hands.
The Artist’s Hand IV 1979 Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1986 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P02910
The Artist’s Hand II 1979 Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1986 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P02908
The Artist’s Hand V 1979 Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1986 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P02911
The Artist’s Hand I 1979 Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1986 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P02907
The Artist’s Hand III 1979 Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1986 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P02909
Hands I 1973 Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 Presented by the artist 1975 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P02190
Hands II 1973 Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 Presented by the artist 1975 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P02191
Hands of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin II 1978 Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1982 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P02643
Hands of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin V 1978 Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1982 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P02646
Hands of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin III 1978 Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1982 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P02644
This is day 13 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here. Today we have transcription challenge. Make something inspired by Caravaggio’s The Cardsharps (1594). What’s a transcription? In art, to transcribe is to copy or record information in a different form than the original. To transcribe a painting or …
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Henry Moore: Drawings of Hands
In these drawings Henry Moore describes the aged body. He made a series of drawings of his own hands when he was eighty-one and suffering from ill-health, and he did more of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s gnarled joints. ‘Hands can convey so much’ he said, ‘they can beg or refuse, take or give, be open or clenched, show content or anxiety. They can be young or old, beautiful or deformed’.
Moore believed his prints were part of a larger history of sculpture and painting, in which artists have shown feelings through their portrayal of hands.
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/moore-the-artists-hand-v-p02911
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