Bernard Meadows 1915-2005
Biography
Mother and Child, 1978
As an artist who produced fairly unconventional art, sculptor and artist Bernard Meadows had a relatively conventional art education, studying at Norwich School of Art. A friend introduced him to Henry Moore, with whom he spent several years working as an assistant. During the war Meadows enlisted in the RAF and was stationed in the Cocos Islands where he saw an unyielding diversity of crabs, whose physical properties he would later translate to his sculptural work. Meadows used such animalistic forms in order to better represent the human body, and with that comment on the human condition.
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Twentieth Century British Art 2012
6 - 21 Dec 2012Artists whose work is presented include: Frank Auerbach Tony Bevan John Bratby Edward Burra Jake & Dinos Chapman Geoffrey Clarke Prunella Clough John Davies Eric Gill David Hockney Gary Hume...Read more -
Henry Moore and the Geometry of Fear
Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke, Bernard Meadows, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi and William Turnbull 11 Nov 2002 - 1 Jan 2003Exactly fifty years ago this year the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presented a major exhibition entitled New Aspects of British Sculpture. Outside the pavilion the visitor was greeted...Read more
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