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Henry Wylie Moore (born 2 November 1923) was the second Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf. Born in 1923, his first job after leaving school was as a clerk with the LMS railway. From 1941 until 1946 he served in the armed forces, firstly with the King's Regiment (Liverpool), and latterly with the Rajputana Rifles. In 1948 he graduated from the University of Liverpool and after a period of study at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford was ordained in 1951, his first post being a curacy at Farnworth, Cheshire. After a period as a missionary in Khuzistan he held incumbencies at Burnage and Middleton. This was followed by a decade of service as Home Secretary then General Secretary of the CMS that lead in turn to his elevation to the episcopate.
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“The Negroes.. ..their unique claim for admiration is their power to produce form completely in the round.. .Negro sculpture is completely in the round, fully-conceived air-surrounded form.”
“Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring.”
“I find myself lined up with the surrealists because Surrealism means freedom for the creative side of man, for surprise & discovery & life, for an opening out & widening of mans consciousness, for changing life & against conserving worn out traditions, for variety not a uniformity, for opening not closing.”
“Yes. There was a period when I tried to avoid looking at Greek – and Renaissance – sculpture of any kind; when I thought that the Greek and Renaissance were the enemy and that one had to throw all that over and start again from the beginning of primitive art. It's only in the last ten or fifteen years that I've begun to know how wonderful the elgin Marbles are.”
“My sculpture is becoming less representational, less an outward visual copy, and so what some people would call more abstract; but only because I believe in that in this way I can present the human psychological content of my work with the greatest directness and intensity.”
“All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know.”
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