Artist field note

Henry Moore

The human figure becomes landscape.

Reclining Figure by Henry Moore
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Reclining Figure

1938

The body stretches horizontally and opens into holes; anatomy begins to resemble rock, hill and shelter.

The five in one idea

Moore made the body geological: hollowed, weathered and continuous with the landscape around it.