Reclining Figure: Festival Reclining Figure: Festival Reclining Figure: Festival (LH 293) is a bronze sculpture by English artist Henry Moore, commissioned by the Arts Council in 1949 for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The sculpture can be viewed as an abstraction of a reclining female human figure, resting on two arms, with a small head. By 1949, Moore was already recognised as Britain's greatest living sculptor, having won the prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1948. The Arts Council suggested that a family group would be appropriate for its commission, based on the festival theme of "discovery", but Moore decided
Joe Fenton (artist) Joe Fenton (artist) Jonathan "Joe" Simon Bramley-Fenton (born 17 December 1971 in Hampstead, London) is an English artist, designer, sculptor and illustrator, who works in monochrome using graphite, ink and acrylics on paper. He has worked on a number of feature films as a concept designer and sculptor, including "The Brothers Grimm" directed by Terry Gilliam and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" directed by Garth Jennings. Fenton became internationally known through his first large-scale drawing rendered in graphite, acrylics, gouache, and ink, called "Solitude". Completed in 2011, the approximately 8 feet wide and 5.5 feet high "Solitude" took more