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HMF 426
Miscellaneous Sketches 1926
pencil
pencil top of page Stay on the big design & play of/masses. until power of form is/achieved - That is interest./Sculptural intensity. Have an/idea & express it powerfully. -/opposition of swellings/& balance./(not symetry) (sic); slightly higher swelling/retreat/retreat/swelling/lower; remember/pebbles/on beach.; chalk No 6 notebook; pencil K.M (circled) (not in artist's hand); nostril of animal/eye of animal/mother & child/seated on half (crossed through) sphere
HMF 427
Sketch of Figure 1926
pencil
pencil top of page May 4th 1926; Henry Moore/3 Grove Studios/Adie Road/Hammersmith. pen and ink u.c.Developement (sic)/of Sculpture from now/not back to Maillol/& archaic Greek/& modelling; pencil SCULPTURE; Disposition of masses with opposition/thrust; opposition/of swellings/Mexican mask/in case; Define difference between modelling Sculpture/Keep in mind -; Sculpture is relative of masses etc etc/modelling is undulation of surfaces./Write out thesis of fact present beliefs./What I am attempting to express -; Connection with my own life - & vision/make a sketch each night of something absurd during/day; Keep ever prominent the big view of sculpture/The World Tradition