Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
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- Page 11 from Unesco Notebook
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pencil u.c. Hodin, pencil u.l. X(circled) 1 A happy resolution/a resolved, happy fixed finality is its aim
- / X(circled) 2 there is a huge arm remaining over from
the previous state of the carving statue/into which the pieta was later
changed – If/ X(circled)3
(Piera della Fancesca/you’ve /
When the primitive, the primary element
may seem to have/ disappeared, as say
in the outward calm of Piero della Francesca,/but in him, in spite of his sophistication + conscious mastery of art,
there is also a disturbing element. X It/X 4 Classical detachment alone escapes trying to solve/ X 5. In some periods of the country
at on period may produce great music/but not very good paintings, like music
around Beethoven’s time/or great
poetry but not much music like England in the nineties/Wordsworth tried –
one cannt say that)./or like a century or two of great poetry in England with
not much good music of painting/contemporary with it + You can’t say that because
there’s no church religious unity around any more, + no church to
commission large mural decorations - /X
5 The human spirit expresses itself now through one act now through/another, now
here + now there for this twenty years poetry will be good, then
somewhere else for a hundred years painting will flourish./X 6 He had enough money to be lazy, or to go
on modestly working in/isolation, no commissions, no being used public use
+/ 6 (Newpart) Its just that in the
head part of the figure I could focus/the
intention the entire figure – the textures there a bull like though docile, but
strong battered but strong, being a suffering but
This page, and also page 10 bear notes for an interview with J.P. Hodin in November 1954 (published as an article entitled "The Hidden Struggle" in the Observer, 24 November 1957.