Elephant and Castle Tube Station 1940 - 1941. Londoners fearing the blitz and not trusting the public shelter or their own shelters started sheltering on Underground Stations, favoring the deeper lines. The Govenment, bowing to pressure, installed bunks and benches and placed underground trains in stations to provide facilities for the hundreds of people who took shelter. Travelling on the underground late one night in 1941 Henry Moore Sculptor and War Artist was captivated by the people beginning to gather on the underground platforms. Out of respect for the people sheltering Henry Moore only made notes and quick sketches in the stations when he returned, working up his drawings in his studio Henry Moore - photo still by Lee Miller - photographed during the filming of a cinema news film on the war artists and how London was adapting to the blitz Since the newspapers in the 19th Century had sent artists to draw soldiers in action, so there could be pictures to accompany the written reports. During the Second World War, to help moral and show how civilians were coping, the british govenment appointed War Artists to record the home front. Weblink
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Not long after the Blitz began the Ministry of Information commissioned Bill Brandt to photograph the air-raid shelters.
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Henry Moore is an extremly important 20th Century Artist most famous for his sculptures, lots of which can be seen at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. However, he is also did a series of drawings of underground bomb shelters during the second world war. Here is a video of Henry Moore talking about the expeirence of creating these drawings: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/henry-moore-s-underground-shelter-drawings-from-world-war-ii/11626.html To create the grainy texture which mirrored the half light of the shelters he used a technique using wax and ink: 28th July 1945: 'Four Grey Sleepers', by Henry Moore, a drawing commissioned by the War Artist Advisory Committee. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1970 - Henry Moore - Sculptor - pub. 1945 (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Copyright Getty Images By Crossett Library Bennington College Image Courtesy of The Henry Moore Foundation Moore was influenced by the drawings of August Rodin who again is more famous as a sculptor, but made drawings of his own work and as studies before making sculptures using a similar technique: Auguste Rodin, Mother and Child, c.1880 graphite, pen and ink, wash, gouache on paper 950 x 174 mm Image courtesy of the Musee Rodin via the Henry Moore Foundation Rodin Drawin courtesy of Wanted in Rome Moore made drawings of his sculptures in the same way: Henry Moore - Reclining Figures - Ideas for Stone Sculpture (1944) couresty of Cea You can see the textures and surfaces of his drawings visually link with the textures and surfaces of his Bronze sculptures as they wear over time: Henry Moore Conservation Day 8: Please don't climb on sculpture! Courtesy of UK Parliament
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