Henry Moore: Back to a Land Family Activities

Family Activities Henry Moore Back to a Land

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Henry Moore was born in 1898 in Castleford, just a few miles from Moore felt his sculpt ure looked bek.

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The change how sculpturweather, light and land es look and even feel around Moore ’s sculptures are. all part of how we experience them.

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in the As a boy he remembered seeing huge stones mines. the of Yorkshire countryside and the slag heaps .

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What is the weather lik Moore was brought up amongst the es, factories, quarries back-to-back hous Think about boy, he rd. As ahow cold it is, and mines of CasIstlefo how sunny o it w et or wginthe r cloudy. dy?Yorkshire enjoyed cycling and explorin countryside. He believed that people and nect out ely con be ural toNat the land were clos feeled. es it How dotree s, root led gnar s, ds, forms such as clou ent weather? in differ art. pebbles and bone all inspired his Be a living s culpture. unowing, mind yo s Do any of his sculpturessre re e w it if s e ad caves? o p a to an in ls hil e s, v o Mck g hot. of people or ro ale or blazin blowing a g Ask someone to draw you.

This leaflet was produced to accompany Henry Moore: Back to a Land, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from 7 March to 6 September 2015.

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Find something ordinary and make it amazing.

Images: Cover: Reclining Figure: Angles (detail), 1979 bronze. Photo Michel Muller, The Henry Moore Foundation archive. Inner: Three Piece Reclining Figure No.1 (detail), 1961–62 bronze. Photo © Jonty Wilde. Courtesy Tate; Stonehenge (detail), 1973 lithograph. Photo Michael Phipps, The Henry Moore Foundation archive. Rear: Large Two Forms (detail), 1969 bronze. Photo © Jonty Wilde. All images reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation.

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Moore often made one sculpture out of two or three parts.

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Choose three objects that you’ve found.

Move them around to look like a sculpture.

Make a collection of natural objects that you find on the ground.

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el like being What does it fe all space? sm cramped into a

Back at home Use mud or grass to ‘shade in’ your drawing so it looks like a monumental stone sculpture.

Does it still look like a person?

Draw into your shape with a wax crayon and paint over it with watery paint.

s the paint.

See how the wax resist Try scratching through the wax when it’s dry.

Can you imagine it as a sculpture with a rough, weather-w orn surface?

Moore felt his sculpt ure looked best in the open air, under th e sky and in nature.

The weather and diffe rent times of day change how sculptur es look and even feel . e today?

What is the weather lik Think about how cold it is , how sunny Is it wet or w or cloudy. indy? to be out How does it feel er? in different weath Be a living s

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This leaflet was produced to accompany Henry Moore: Back to a Land, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from 7 March to 6 September 2015.

Presented in partnership with

Yorkshire Sculpture Park West Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LG United Kingdom ysp.co.uk

@YSPsculpture

Images: Cover: Reclining Figure: Angles (detail), 1979 bronze. Photo Michel Muller, The Henry Moore Foundation archive. Inner: Three Piece Reclining Figure No.1 (detail), 1961–62 bronze. Photo © Jonty Wilde. Courtesy Tate; Stonehenge (detail), 1973 lithograph. Photo Michael Phipps, The Henry Moore Foundation archive. Rear: Large Two Forms (detail), 1969 bronze. Photo © Jonty Wilde. All images reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation.