Reel by James Payne 📺
James Payne 📺@greatartexplained Don’t miss the Henry Moore show at Kew Gardens. It is superb! I particularly loved this sculpture by the pagoda; “Large Reclining Figure” from 1983 (Moore died in 1986). Moore’s use of fibreglass is a fascinating but relatively overlooked part of his practice, because we tend to associate him with heavy, traditional sculptural materials like stone and bronze. But from the 1950s and particularly during the 1960s and 1970s, Moore experimented with fibreglass and other synthetic materials. Fibreglass offered something radically different from carving stone or casting bronze: it was lightweight, relatively inexpensive, strong and capable of being moulded into large, complex forms. For Moore, however, fibreglass was generally part of the process rather than a replacement for bronze. He increasingly worked indirectly: making a small maquette, enlarging it, producing an intermediate model or full-size version, and then having the final sculpture cast in bronze. Lovely day in Kew with @joshurvell @henrymooreinstitute @henrymoorestudios @kewgardens
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@sarah_sentiment 🙌
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@inspirationsjuandiegomartinez The best !!!! 🤍💪🔥
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@bramhermens_werk Epic 🫂🦏🗿🏯
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@a.metamorphicart ✒️⚱️📜1/1 Phygital organic architecture thoughts | Craftsmanship on fiber | eternal dust✒️✏️
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@corematerial Fibreglass is like the lead white to painting. Perfection at the time. But…
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@walkingwiththewitchesofficial Fibreglass is a nightmare to work with, I once built a boat with my late father out of fibreglass. I love Henry Moores work, brilliant sculptor and from just over the moorland.
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