Henry Moore Perry Green5-Woman 1957-58

Henry Moore

Art in the Classroom

Ms Freeman’s class June 2007

Henry Moore Perry Garden8-Reclining Figure: Hand 1979

Henry MooreReclining figurePerry Green

• Lived 1898 – 1986

• 7th of 8 children!

• Father: coal miner

• Decided to become a sculptor in elementary school

• Parents wanted him to be a teacher

• English sculptor

• Studied in England

Henry Moore

Moore – sculpture

Favorite subjects: • Human figure• Mother and child• Reclining figure• Exaggerates the pose,

shape and sizes of the limbs, arms and body

Henry MooreReclining Figure No. 4, 1954-55

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/euwb/hod_1995.600.htm (October 2006)

Henry Moore with his elmwood Reclining Figure, 1939

• Smooth shapes• Empty hollows

Henry Moore

15-Large Reclining Figure 1984

• Outdoors• Inspired by nature•“they need space, they need to breathe”

Moore

Henry MooreSheep piecePerry Green

Interested in primitive art – the shape of form

2 Reclining Connected Forms, 1969

Henry Moore Perry Green.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Kansas City > Reclining Figure: Hand (by Henry Moore)

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Kansas City > Sheep Piece by Henry Moore

Henry MooreLarge Arch

http://www.kid-at-art.com/htdoc/kidsarch.html

• Large Arch• “wanted to sculpt

art that could be walked around and through”

• Bronze • Located in

Columbus, Ohio

Create a sculpture!

Art in the Classroom: Henry Moore Activity

• Think of an abstract figure or shape you want to make

• Holes (negative space) are as important as solid parts

• Use the knife to remove the plaster of paris where you want a hole and to shape the edges