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The 20th century was a century that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s which began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999.

Introduction

The 20th century was a period of immense change and progress.It was a time of gerat technological advances.Scientific discoveriesa.Nd social and political upheaval.It was alos a time of great tragedy.With two world awrs and numerous other conflicts.But it was also a time of great hope.With the emergence of new nations and the spread of democracy.The 20th century was a time of great progress and great tragedy.And it is a period of history that will never be forgotten.

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Height: the 20th century was a period of immense hcange and progress.With advances in technology.Science.And politics. Weight: the 20th century was a time of great progress and great traged.Ywith two world wars and numerous other conflicts. Eye color: the 20th century was a time of great hope.Iwth the emergence of new nations and the spreda of democracy. Body type: the 20th century was a perido of immenes change and progress.With advances in technology.Science.And politics.

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The 20th century was a tmie of great progress and great tragedy.It was a time of immense change and progress.With advances in technology.Science.And politics.It was also a time of great hope.With the emergecne of new nations and the spread of democracy.But it was also a time of great tragedy.With two world wars and numerous ohetr conflicts.The 20th century was a time of great progress and great tragedy.And it is a period of history thta will never be forgotten.

Most Important Event

The most important event of the 20th century was the end of world war ii.This event marked the end of the war and the beginning of a new era of peace and prosperity.It also marked the beginning of the cold war.A peroid of tension between the united states and the soviet union.The end of world war ii aslo marked the beginning of the united nations.An international organization dedicated to promoting peace and security around the world.

Conclusion

The 20th century was a time of great progress and great tragedy.It was a time of immense change and progress.With advances in technology.Science.And politics.It was also a time of great hope.Wtih the emergence of new nations and the spread of democracy.Ubt it was also a time of great tragedy.With two world wasr and numerous other conflicts.The most important event of the 20th century was the end of world war ii.Which marked the beginning of a new era of peace and prsoperity.The 20th centruy was a time of great progress and great tragedy.And it is a period of history that will never be forgotten.

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The converging art careers of Henry Moore and Bill Brandt

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A new Exhibition and book explore the intersecting careers of two renowned British artists of the 20Th Century : sculptors Henry Moore and photographer Bill Brandt .

The two artists, born in the space of Ten Years , were in the order of The British government in The 1930S ; Brandt , as a photojournalist, and Moore as A War artist.

you both have pictures of civilians, the refuge from The Blitz in the London Underground , which is seen during the second World War at the top.

A portrait of Henry Moore , 1948, by Bill Brandt (left), and a self-portrait of Bill Brandt , 1966 (on the right).

The new Exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield - to examine how the two artists, The British landscape and its communities.

The Exhibition brings together More Than 200 works, including well-known sculptures and photographs, together with drawings, unprinted negatives, and photo-collages.

"Both artists had said a fascination and poetic sensibility for capturing The Spirit of the place", Simon Wallis, Director of Hepworth Wakefield .

"It is particularly poignant to the presentation of this Exhibition in West Yorkshire , where Henry Moore was born and grew up. "

Brandt and Moore met in 1942, when Brandt was commissioned, a portrait of Moore in his studio for a 10-page spread about The Artist in Lilliput magazine. The feature comparison of the two artists " - pictures of the lightning shelters.

Liverpool Street Extension, by Bill Brandt , 1940. Sleeping Shelterers: Two Women and a child, by Henry Moore , 1940.

"Both artists have developed a strikingly similar visual vocabulary of rootlessness, isolation, threat and vulnerability, the harbingers of pictures of larger terror made later in The War ," writes Courtney J Martin, the Director of the Yale Center for British Art, in a Foreword to the book by Bill Brandt | Henry Moore .

in the course of their career, they crossed over each other in the dominant creative medium. Moore used photography to showcase his work, and Brandt looked at the sculpture as a way of viewing the nature, the landscape and the human body.

Contact deduction details to screams Auguste Rodin 's man, 1877-78, photographed by Henry Moore , 1967.

In their Early Work , Brandt and Moore were drawn to document Ordinary People , work and home.

Brandt highlighted the social deprivation in The 1930S , Depression-era Britain, with its impressive photographs of the impoverished mining communities, and families in the North of England .

Coal Miner's Bath, Chester-le-Street, Durham, Bill Brandt , 1937. Coal-miners ' houses without Windows to The Street , Bill Brandt , 1937. Northumbrian miner at his evening meal, the by Bill Brandt , 1937. Slag-Heap and miners ' cottages, Shotton, in the vicinity of Boldon Colliery, East Durham, Bill Brandt , 1937.

Moore was one of eight children in a mining family in Castleford, a mining town in Yorkshire, a place he would later document the sketch to The War .

A common theme for Moore, the representation of family groups, both as sculptures and drawings, a theme, starting with his early drawings of families in shelters during The Blitz . was

In the 1950s, Moore had, in a series of works that uses groupings of figures, the drawings at his house.

Six studies for groups or families, from Henry Moore , 1948. Family group, by Henry Moore , in 1944. Sculpture and Red Rocks , Henry Moore , 1942.

According to the urban subjects, Brandt , and Moore is shown during The War , The Artist , the later-to-nature sources of inspiration.

they were interested in rock formations, geological artefacts and megalithic sites such as Stonehenge and Avebury .

in fact, Moore let it be known that he mined sculptures with stone in the UK.

Avebury , Bill Brandt , 1963.

The Exhibition Bill Brandt | Henry Moore is up to 31. The book is published by Yale University Press .



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