In 1930 Moore spoke of "recognising the material" in which he worked. He aimed "to know that sculpture in stone should look honestly like stone, that to make it look like flesh and blood, hair and dimples is coming down to the level of the stage conjurer"
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Moore said
sculpture should
be "strong and
vital, giving out
something of the
energy of the
mountains"
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Moore drew
influences from
the previous
generation of
sculptors. The
maxim of 'truth
to material' was
central to his
working method,
and he praised
the Romanian
sculptor
Constantin
Brancusi for
making "us once
more shape-
conscious."
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As the
primitivism of
the Twenties
gave way to the
influence of
antique and
renaissance
classicism of the
Fifties, Moore's
work was
criticised by
modernists for
being too
attached to the
past. His one-time
assistant, sculptor
Anthony Caro,
wrote of work
which "fails to
measure up to
the outsize scale
it has been given"
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Seated groups
and reclining
figures were
always central to
Moore's work. As
a human element
in the landscape,
often sited in
gardens or public
parks, his works,
in his words,
"introduced a
humanising
element, a
mediator
between modern
house and ageless
land."
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Monroe married
her second
husband, baseball
star Joe DiMaggio,
in 1954. "I
wonder if I can
take all your
crazy publicity",
he said. He
couldn't (he
particularly
objected to the
billowing-skirt
scene from The
Seven Year Itch),
and nine months
later they
divorced. But
they remained
lifelong friends
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Monroe's third
husband was the
famous American
playwright,
Arthur Miller.
One US paper
headlined the
announcement of
their marriage:
"Egghead weds
hourglass". Asked
what the secret
was of Miller's
appeal, Monroe
replied:
"Everything.
Haven't you seen
him?"
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After her death, rumours spread that Monroe had had affairs with both John Kennedy (centre) and his brother Robert (far left). A friend, the actor Peter Lawford, claimed that she told him to "Say goodbye to Jack [President Kennedy]" on the night of her death