Brian Sewell’s epic rant against Henry Moore provoked by the Tate show of the sculptor’s work looks for a villain to blame all this Moore upon. He finds it in Kenneth Clark:

The Establishment took him to its bosom. Kenneth Clark began that rot — the precocious Kenneth Clark who was the National Gallery’s worst director and is known to us all as the vain master of Civilisation — for it was he who appointed Moore an official war artist in 1941, and he who that very year displayed the Shelter Drawings that made Moore so widely popular during the Second World War. Continue Reading