He was best known for his semiabstract bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art Moores sculptures typically depict motherandchild or reclining figures ID: 634237
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Henry Moore
1898-1986Born in Castleford, Yorkshire, EnglandSlide2
He was best known for his semi-abstract bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.
Moore’s sculptures typically depict
mother-and-child or reclining figures.
Henry Moore was an English sculptor and artist.
His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow spaces.
“Reclining Mother and Child”Slide3
“The Family”Slide4
“Mother and Child”Slide5
“Vertebrae”Slide6
Henry Moore created large scale abstract cast bronze and carved marble sculptures like you see above.
Most
of the money he earned went towards endowing the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and the promotion of the arts today. Slide7
What is one thing that you learned today about Henry Moore?Slide8
Make a Sculpture
Put your name on the top of your paper plate.If you want to give your sculpture more support, use a piece of tinfoil to form your person or object.
You can make a reclining sculpture with hollow spaces (negative space) like Henry Moore if you would like.Cover your tin foil with clay or if you are not using tin foil, sculpt your artwork out of your clay. Put your sculpture on a paper plate and let it dry. Slide9
You can create structural support for your sculpture using tin foil. This sample used tin foil inside the elephant's trunk.
If you want to make a human figure, you can sculpt it out of tin foil first, then cover it with clay.