“You could call Sir Anthony Caro the Madonna of sculpture. However irreverent to recall the Pop diva in relation to so high-minded a modernist as Mr. Caro, the sculptor shares with the entertainer a protean capacity for personal reinvention while never leaving the viewer in any doubt that a piece is his.”

Moore, it is said, was in the unusual position of having architects visit his studio to choose from existing works to complement their architectural visions, rather than commissioning pieces from the sculpturor himself with the intention that the sculpture would then complement the architecture.

The siting of commissioned sculpture (public art) within an architectural setting probably has much in common with the siting of commissioned sculpture within a garden setting. In the design process there can potentially be a process of dialogue and refinement between the two objects (piece and place).

However, with the siting of sculpture in a pre-existing setting (natural or created) only one set of relations can be modified and adjusted to create the desired dialogue between piece and place.