{"id":8158,"date":"2015-08-19T05:12:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T08:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2016-01-12T02:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T05:48:14","slug":"caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/","title":{"rendered":"Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land at YSP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8162\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?resize=696%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Caro Month of May 2\" width=\"696\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C684&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?resize=370%2C247&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?resize=570%2C380&amp;ssl=1 570w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?resize=770%2C514&amp;ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?resize=1170%2C781&amp;ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?resize=869%2C580&amp;ssl=1 869w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?resize=270%2C180&amp;ssl=1 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Major exhibits currently showing\u00a0at Yorkshire Sculpture Park are providing\u00a0new perspectives on the work of two of Britain&#8217;s eminent twentieth-century sculptors. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/daily-visual-22-07-15-anthony-caro-in-yorkshire\/\">Caro in Yorkshire<\/a><\/em>, a two-site exhibition spread\u00a0between Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Hepworth Wakefield, looks back over sixty years of Anthony Caro&#8217;s career, viewing his creative process\u00a0&#8211; from his early small bronze figures to the revolutionary painted steel and aluminium constructs of the 1960s, which removed sculpture from its traditional plinth and placed Caro&#8217;s name at\u00a0the forefront of modern art &#8211; within the contexts of painting and architecture. An\u00a0initiative of Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle, more than 100 of Caro&#8217;s works are being displayed indoors and outdoors across the two sites.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile <em>Henry Moore: Back to a Land<\/em> explores the ceaseless interaction between Henry Moore&#8217;s art and the earth, developing his interest in specific locales, as well as geological features. Moore spoke of the\u00a0&#8216;element of the unknown that fascinates\u00a0me in caves and the holes in the sides of hills &#8211; you don\u2019t know\u00a0what is there until you look and explore into them&#8217;. Alongside sculptures both inside and out, Yorkshire Sculpture Park&#8217;s Underground Gallery has been reconfigured to display\u00a0a broad selection\u00a0of Moore&#8217;s drawings and sketches. In total 120 pieces are on show, in collaboration with the Henry Moore Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>After opening last month, <em>Caro in Yorkshire<\/em> will continue at\u00a0Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Hepworth Wakefield until 1 November. Meanwhile\u00a0<em>Henry Moore: Back to a Land<\/em> has just a few weeks left to run, closing after six months on 6 September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>The story of Anthony Caro&#8217;s career is usually portrayed\u00a0with a radical break: the promising early figurative works of the 1950s, typically in bronze, cast aside and his art revolutionised upon his first visit to the United States in 1959. There Caro embraced the expressionist sculpture of David Smith and the criticism of Clement Greenberg, while also developing\u00a0fruitful friendships with the abstract painters Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Helen Frankenthaler.<\/p>\n<p>Eschewing figuration, <em>Twenty Four Hours<\/em> (1960) was Caro&#8217;s first abstract sculpture, and the first which he welded from pieces of steel. Part of the Tate collection, the work is currently on loan at Hepworth Wakefield. <em>Sculpture Seven<\/em> (1961) &#8211; along with <em>Midday<\/em> (1960), which is in the collection\u00a0of MoMA, and was last exhibited as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8217;s <em>Anthony Caro on the Roof\u00a0<\/em>back in 2011\u00a0 &#8211; was one of Caro&#8217;s first polychrome sculptures, its welded steel painted in store-bought, unmixed green paint.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8212\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8212\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sculpture-Seven-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8212\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sculpture-Seven-1.jpg?resize=696%2C460&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sculpture-Seven-1.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sculpture-Seven-1.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sculpture-Seven-1.jpg?resize=768%2C508&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sculpture-Seven-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C677&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sculpture-Seven-1.jpg?resize=370%2C245&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sculpture-Seven-1.jpg?resize=770%2C509&amp;ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sculpture-Seven-1.jpg?resize=1170%2C774&amp;ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sculpture-Seven-1.jpg?resize=877%2C580&amp;ssl=1 877w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sculpture-Seven-1.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sculpture Seven (1961) by Anthony Caro, Steel painted green, blue &amp; brown , 178 x 537 x 105.5 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Caro&#8217;s wife, the modernist painter Sheila Girling, was both a constant companion and another crucial influence upon his work. <em>Early One Morning<\/em> (1962) incorporated aluminium alongside steel, and was one of Caro&#8217;s largest sculptures to date, extending over 6 metres. Its vivid red was an improvement suggested by Sheila, as Caro recalled:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8216;I remember finishing Early One Morning, which had become so long I\u2019d ended up with the garage doors permanently open. I\u2019d painted it green and we\u2019d put it out on the lawn to get a better look. I woke up next morning and opened the curtains and there it was. But the colour was wrong. Sheila said \u201cthat\u2019s definitely a red sculpture\u201d. She was spot on and that\u2019s what it became.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A year later,<em> Month of May<\/em> (1963) arrived\u00a0as part of the same innovative burst, its twisted bars and foundational blocks of steel and aluminium painted in magenta, orange, and green. Together these sculptures of the early 1960s\u00a0established Caro&#8217;s reputation, leading\u00a0to a teaching position at\u00a0Bennington College, Vermont, and solo exhibitions at the\u00a0Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and the\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Emmerich Gallery in New York. Caro&#8217;s radically modern, free-standing, painted steel works were subsequently showcased at documenta III in Kassel, at the Tate, and at\u00a0Washington Gallery of Modern Art. His first retrospective came as early as 1967, at the\u00a0Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller Museum in Otterlo. It was followed by another in 1969 at the Hayward Gallery, and his first major retrospective was held by MoMA in 1975.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Caro in Yorkshire<\/em> begins inside Yorkshire Sculpture Park&#8217;s visitor&#8217;s centre, where there is an alcove display of scale models from the duration of Caro&#8217;s career. Across the park, the first room of the Longside Gallery shows some of\u00a0Caro&#8217;s earliest figurative works in paper and bronze. These include small bronze figures depicting female heads, squatting warriors, and twisted bulls; and life drawings, mostly female nudes, with annotations by Henry Moore, who Caro served as an assistant between\u00a01951-1953.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8213\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Double-Flats.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8213 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Double-Flats.jpg?resize=620%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Double Flats\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Double-Flats.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Double-Flats.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Double-Flats.jpg?resize=370%2C246&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Double-Flats.jpg?resize=570%2C381&amp;ssl=1 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double Flats (1974) by Anthony Caro, Steel rusted and waxed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The main space of the Longside Gallery opens out impressively with\u00a0<em>Month of May<\/em>, and works round onto\u00a0<em>Paris Green<\/em> (1966) and <em>Sculpture Seven<\/em>. The buckled steel of <em>Xanadu<\/em> (1986-88) draws from both classical Greek architecture and the painting\u00a0<em>Bathers by a River<\/em> (1917) by Henri Matisse. <em>Sackbut<\/em> (2011-12) was similarly inspired by C\u00e9zanne&#8217;s <em>The Card Players<\/em> (1894-95), and marked one of Caro&#8217;s earliest uses of Perspex. This was part\u00a0of the\u00a0<em>Last Sculptures<\/em>, Caro&#8217;s final series of works, which saw him return to the sort of bold colour which is well\u00a0represented here by <em>Blue Moon<\/em> (2013).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Longside Gallery also features one of Caro&#8217;s <em>Ducco Variations<\/em> (1999-2000), a series in diverse materials based on <em>The Annunciation<\/em> (1307-11) by the Italian artist Duccio. And finally in the centre of the room are Caro&#8217;s paper sculptures, models and three-dimensional frames which he elaborated with the printmaker Ken Tyler in 1981 in New York, and on a visit to Obama, Japan, in 1990.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Outside, in the YSP&#8217;s parks and gardens,\u00a0<em>Promenade<\/em> (1996) &#8211; which has stood in the lower park since 1998, becoming one of the YSP&#8217;s emblematic and most climbed upon sculptures &#8211; and <em>Dream City<\/em> (1992-94) have been joined by the rusted and waxed steel of <em>Forum<\/em> (1992-94). And towards Camellia House stand a strategic selection from the rusted and varnished steel <em>Flats<\/em>, a series\u00a0comprising thirty-seven pieces in all which Caro completed in Canada in the middle of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Throughout,\u00a0<em>Caro in Yorkshire<\/em> at Yorkshire Sculpture Park demonstrates the artist&#8217;s interest in volume and space above texture and shape. At the beginning of the\u00a01960s, working in a confined environment &#8211; typically out of his garage &#8211; Caro focused on interrelating forms, rather than the\u00a0appearance his sculptures would take when viewed from a conventional distance. Subsequently pieces like <em>Month of May<\/em> are best experienced up close,\u00a0and from all angles. It is these daring works from the 1960s which continue to seem the most vital and the most fun, angling and pointing sharply and brightly into the air, and occasionally\u00a0slithering unconstrained\u00a0along the floor of the gallery.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8214\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Moon.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8214\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Moon.jpg?resize=696%2C509&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Blue Moon\" width=\"696\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Moon.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Moon.jpg?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Moon.jpg?resize=768%2C562&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Moon.jpg?resize=1024%2C750&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Moon.jpg?resize=370%2C271&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Moon.jpg?resize=770%2C564&amp;ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Moon.jpg?resize=1170%2C856&amp;ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Moon.jpg?resize=792%2C580&amp;ssl=1 792w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue-Moon.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Moon (2013) by Anthony Caro, Perspex and steel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Outside the <em>Flats<\/em> series experiment in a different direction: those loosely gathered\u00a0at the YSP are self-effacing, and slender in bulk, with rounded edges, their blank fronts appearing as pages deliberately left unwritten. The rusted steel in orange, russet, and brown is at its best offset by all the green foliage. Yet the lack of surface interest and a certain formal rigidity render these and the other works\u00a0in the lower park little more than background pieces, witnessed casually from a middle-ground. Along with some of the unpainted sculptures\u00a0inside, they can be hard to grasp without a knowledge of the art &#8211; the Matisses, Cezannes, and Courbets &#8211; by which they were inspired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The opportunity to view the full scope of Caro&#8217;s career offers suggestive parallels, and indicates that the supposed break of 1959 was not wholly decisive. Bronze figures such as <em>Warrior I<\/em>\u00a0(1951-53) and <em>Fighting Bull<\/em> (1954) still show the influences of Moore and Picasso, but they already tend towards abstraction, their densely crouching forms resembling later works like <em>Xanadu<\/em> and <em>Forum<\/em> &#8211; which themselves imply something of a rapprochement with figuration. Meanwhile the <em>Last Sculptures<\/em> seem a final flourish, their angular colours and the clever use of Perspex to imply\u00a0windows and mirrors &#8211; alternately framing and proving a sense of movement within fixed parts &#8211; recalling Caro&#8217;s early 1960s and its playful vigour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Caro in Yorkshire<\/em> is the first major retrospective since the artist&#8217;s death in October 2013. Sheila Girling was involved in putting together the exhibition commemorating her husband&#8217;s life, until her own death in February of this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>The title of <em>Henry Moore: Back to a Land<\/em> is taken from <em>A Land<\/em> by the archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes, originally published in 1951 as an evocative history digressing upon\u00a0the geological and cultural formation of the British landscape. The book mentioned Moore, Hawkes writing that\u00a0\u2018Rodin pursued the idea of conscious, spiritual man emerging from the rock [&#8230;] Moore sees him rather as always a part of it&#8217;. And in 1954,\u00a0having read the work, Moore provided the drawings for an illustrated\u00a0edition.<\/p>\n<p>These\u00a0illustrations are part of <em>Henry Moore: Back to a Land<\/em>. Also on display are the studies of Stonehenge which he made\u00a0over a visit in 1973, his sketches of miners, and the drawings of the London Underground completed amidst World War II. Such series are shown alongside assorted other drawings, including\u00a0<em>Northern Landscape: Iceberg<\/em> (1980) and\u00a0<em>Clouds in Sky<\/em> (1982).<\/p>\n<p>While several\u00a0of Moore&#8217;s drawings impress with their graceful line, some enhanced by loose washes; and a couple of the Stonehenge pieces demonstrate masterful technique, depicting the full interplay of shadows and light across\u00a0curved surfaces; still others seem a little outdated,\u00a0even Gothic in their darkly elaborate etchings. Where the drawings really excel is in turning attention back upon the sculptures. They\u00a0reveal the extent and the often surprising manner of Moore&#8217;s associations between hills, rocks, and caves, and the human body.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8215\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Reclining-Figure-1984.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8215\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Reclining-Figure-1984.jpg?resize=696%2C392&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Large Reclining Figure 1984\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Reclining-Figure-1984.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Reclining-Figure-1984.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Reclining-Figure-1984.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Reclining-Figure-1984.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Reclining-Figure-1984.jpg?resize=370%2C208&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Reclining-Figure-1984.jpg?resize=770%2C433&amp;ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Reclining-Figure-1984.jpg?resize=1170%2C658&amp;ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Reclining-Figure-1984.jpg?resize=1031%2C580&amp;ssl=1 1031w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Large-Reclining-Figure-1984.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large Reclining Figure (1984) by Henry Moore, Fibreglass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Henry Moore: Back to a Land<\/em> is full of reclining figures, in travertine marble, bronze, wood, and plaster. With skeletal interiors entwined in the plump traces of flesh, and abstracted body parts &#8211; heads, bones, and muscles &#8211; marked and crossed with lines, the sculptures all bear a surface interest, and show Moore&#8217;s acute sensitivity for diverse materials.\u00a0Outside in Yorkshire Sculpture Park&#8217;s gardens, the exhibition brings together <em>Large Two Forms<\/em> (1966-69), <em>Two Piece Reclining Figure: Points<\/em> (1969), <em>Reclining Figure: Angles<\/em> (1979), and <em>Large Reclining Figure<\/em> (1984).<\/p>\n<p>Mary Moore &#8211; who has noted that until the end of his life, her father continued to draw inspired by his native Yorkshire landscape &#8211; has also brought together for the exhibition a collection of Henry&#8217;s ethnographic objects, from the Maya, Columbia, Africa, and Egypt. These are displayed with Moore&#8217;s maquettes, notes, and tools, photographs, and a video portraying\u00a0the artist at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major exhibits currently showing\u00a0at Yorkshire Sculpture Park are providing\u00a0new perspectives on the work of two of Britain&#8217;s eminent twentieth-century sculptors. Caro in Yorkshire, a two-site exhibition spread\u00a0between Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Hepworth Wakefield, looks back over sixty years of Anthony Caro&#8217;s career, viewing his creative process\u00a0&#8211; from his early small bronze figures to the revolutionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3874],"tags":[3951,3952,3996,2838,3953],"class_list":{"0":"post-8158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"tag-anthony-caro","9":"tag-british-art","10":"tag-henry-moore","11":"tag-sculpture","12":"tag-yorkshire-sculpture-park"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land at YSP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Major exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park are recontextualising the works of British sculptors, with Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land at YSP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Major exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park are recontextualising the works of British sculptors, with Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Culturedarm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/culturedallroundman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-08-19T08:12:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-01-12T05:48:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"801\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Christopher Laws\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/culturedarm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Christopher Laws\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"9 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Christopher Laws\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9034b985ef3e4c9cea454b05beb6a4f5\"},\"headline\":\"Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land at YSP\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-08-19T08:12:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-01-12T05:48:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/\"},\"wordCount\":1829,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Anthony Caro\",\"British Art\",\"Henry Moore\",\"Sculpture\",\"Yorkshire Sculpture Park\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Art\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/\",\"name\":\"Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land at YSP\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-08-19T08:12:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-01-12T05:48:14+00:00\",\"description\":\"Major exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park are recontextualising the works of British sculptors, with Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":801},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land at YSP\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/\",\"name\":\"Culturedarm\",\"description\":\"Where the Strands of Culture Entwine\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Culturedarm\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Culturedarm-Key-Logo.png?fit=2000%2C2000&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Culturedarm-Key-Logo.png?fit=2000%2C2000&ssl=1\",\"width\":2000,\"height\":2000,\"caption\":\"Culturedarm\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9034b985ef3e4c9cea454b05beb6a4f5\",\"name\":\"Christopher Laws\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4a2f9388be3e41f27f43fe51224069a624b67a359c37fc47507eebac44221719?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4a2f9388be3e41f27f43fe51224069a624b67a359c37fc47507eebac44221719?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Christopher Laws\"},\"description\":\"Christopher Laws is the writer and editor of Culturedarm, currently based in Ume\u00e5, Sweden.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.culturedarm.com\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/culturedallroundman\",\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/culturedarm\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/culturedarm\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land at YSP","description":"Major exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park are recontextualising the works of British sculptors, with Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land at YSP","og_description":"Major exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park are recontextualising the works of British sculptors, with Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land.","og_url":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/","og_site_name":"Culturedarm","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/culturedallroundman","article_published_time":"2015-08-19T08:12:02+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-01-12T05:48:14+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":801,"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Christopher Laws","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/culturedarm","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Christopher Laws","Est. reading time":"9 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/"},"author":{"name":"Christopher Laws","@id":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9034b985ef3e4c9cea454b05beb6a4f5"},"headline":"Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land at YSP","datePublished":"2015-08-19T08:12:02+00:00","dateModified":"2016-01-12T05:48:14+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/"},"wordCount":1829,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1","keywords":["Anthony Caro","British Art","Henry Moore","Sculpture","Yorkshire Sculpture Park"],"articleSection":["Art"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/","url":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/","name":"Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land at YSP","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1","datePublished":"2015-08-19T08:12:02+00:00","dateModified":"2016-01-12T05:48:14+00:00","description":"Major exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park are recontextualising the works of British sculptors, with Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1","width":1200,"height":801},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/caro-in-yorkshire-and-henry-moore-back-to-a-land-at-ysp\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Caro in Yorkshire and Henry Moore: Back to a Land at YSP"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#website","url":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/","name":"Culturedarm","description":"Where the Strands of Culture Entwine","publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#organization","name":"Culturedarm","url":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Culturedarm-Key-Logo.png?fit=2000%2C2000&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Culturedarm-Key-Logo.png?fit=2000%2C2000&ssl=1","width":2000,"height":2000,"caption":"Culturedarm"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9034b985ef3e4c9cea454b05beb6a4f5","name":"Christopher Laws","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4a2f9388be3e41f27f43fe51224069a624b67a359c37fc47507eebac44221719?s=96&d=retro&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4a2f9388be3e41f27f43fe51224069a624b67a359c37fc47507eebac44221719?s=96&d=retro&r=g","caption":"Christopher Laws"},"description":"Christopher Laws is the writer and editor of Culturedarm, currently based in Ume\u00e5, Sweden.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.culturedarm.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/culturedallroundman","http:\/\/instagram.com\/culturedarm","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/culturedarm"]}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/Caro-Month-of-May-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg4g5X-27A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10399,"href":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/10399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}