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Mayan chacmool sculptures such as this one heavily influenced which of the following twentieth-century sculptors? <image 1> (A) Louise Bourgeois (B) Henry Moore (C) Barbara Hepworth (D) Constantin Brancusi Answer with the option's letter from the given choices directly. No punctuation. | D Difficulty: Easy Subfield: Visual Arts Explanation: Mayan chacmool sculptures are typically made of stone and feature a reclining human figure with a head turned 90 degrees away from the body and looking directly at the viewer. Henry Moore saw a cast of a chacmool in a Paris museum and was fascinated by it. Moore's reclining figures, which are more abstract than chacmools but were inspired by the essence of chacmool form, became a major characteristic of Moore's work. |