While at the end of his strict, academic training at the Royal Academy, Anthony Caro worked as an assistant to Henry Moore and Caro's figural works of the 1950s are clearly influenced by this experience. He is better known however, for his radical and brightly coloured steel sculptures of the following decade, which were inspired by the writings of the formalist critics such as Clement Greenberg and the Abstract Expressionists. Caro's one-man exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1963 brought him considerable critical attention. He was quickly regarded as a major figure for his role, both through his work and his teaching at St Martin's School of Art, London, in creating a new abstract school of British sculpture. In 2004/5 the Tate celebrated Caro's work with a major retrospective.