Woman Waking Up

Mediums: bronze.
Location: Tate Modern Gallery (London, the UK).

Caro made his early sculpture mainly from clay and cast in bronze. These were figurative compositions depicting people and having signs of expressionism. The work “Woman Waking Up” is a lying naked woman whose body is depicted in a very sketchy, even rude manner, and it is not attractive. Experimenting with the shape of objects and techniques, Anthony Caro deliberately left the sculpture as if unfinished, with a poorly designed surface and angular shapes, demonstrating his penchant for abstract forms.