亨利·摩尔是西方现代雕塑史上继罗丹之后最重要的一位雕塑家。罗丹(1840-1917)是西方古典传统最后一位大师,又是开启现代雕塑风气的先驱者。他是一位富有激情的浪漫主义者。他还在保持传统雕塑主体造型语言的基础上,把绘画感引进了雕塑,丰富了雕塑语言。他的学生和弟子们,凡是有抱负和出息的,都深知“大树底下生不出好苗来”的道理,纷纷走与老师分道扬镳的路。20世纪前30年,欧洲雕塑的新思潮与绘画一样,风起云涌,表现主义、主体主义、抽象主义、超现实主义等流派相继崛起,在雕塑语言上做了许多别开生面的探索。源于西方哲学重分析的理论,西方现代主义美术流派也是从 Henry Moore is the most important sculptor in the history of Western modern sculpture after Rodin. Rodin (1840-1917) was the last master of Western classical tradition and a pioneer in opening up the modern sculpture. He is a passionate romantic. He also maintained the traditional modeling language based on the main body, the sense of painting into the sculpture, enriched the sculpture language. His students and his disciples, who have ambitions and good news, all realize that the reason that “there is no good seedling under the tree” has gone their separate ways from the teacher. In the first 30 years of 20th century, the new trend of European sculptures, like the painting, surged in style. Expressionism, subjectivism, abstractionism and surrealism all emerged one after another and made a number of unique exploration in sculpture language. From the theory of re-analysis of Western philosophy, Western modernist art genres are also from