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Discussion Between Henry Moore and Edwin Mullins about Moore's Wartime Underground Sketches.
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Moore has experienced no comparable event since other than domestic matters like the birth of his daughter and he has not been able to recreate the emotional state that produced the shelter sketches."
Bib. Number0004827
Discussion Between Henry Moore and Edwin Mullins about Moore's Wartime Underground Sketches.
PublisherBritish Broadcasting Corporation
Place PublishedLondon
Year1970
Date & Collation15 mins.Sound recording.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationRadio 3 interview 27 May 1970 on occasion of Marlborough Fine Art exhibition of facsimiles and originals. Moore describes how he discovered the shelterers by chance when travelling home on the Underground. He made notes and drew the following morning, repeating this process for a couple of weeks. Kenneth Clark saw his sketchbook and invited him to become a war artist. Scenes related in his mind to art historical reclining figures and to Mother and Child theme. Tunnels, also of sculptural interest, influenced his later sculpture: using drapery would not have happened I don't think if I hadn't done the Shelter Drawings." Sense of impending doom outside without any physical action or movement gave a sense of Greek drama; and also related to Moore's static sculptures which convey a sense of action. Compared briefly with Goya's Disasters of War.Moore has experienced no comparable event since other than domestic matters like the birth of his daughter and he has not been able to recreate the emotional state that produced the shelter sketches."