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Sandbox

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This is my pointless sandbox where I experiment.

Legacy

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Abstract sculpture made of rusting steel
Dream City (1996), rusting steel, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Most sculptors who emerged during the height of Moore's fame, and in the aftermath of his death, found themselves cast in his shadow. By the late 1940s, Moore was a worldwide celebrity; he was the voice of British sculpture, and of British modernism in general. The next generation was constantly compared against him, and reacted by challenging his legacy, his "establishment" credentials and his position. At the 1952 Venice Biennale, eight new British sculptors produced their Geometry of Fear works as a direct contrast to the ideals behind Moore's idea of Endurance, Continuity.[1]

  1. ^ Causey, 71.