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Joseph F
Year6
Focus on Henry Moore
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Lyla P
Year 6 employed Moore’s technique of sketching with a ballpoint pen, using zig zags and swirls and thin and thick scratchy lines and shading.
Diggory C
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Christian McA-M
Our annual visit to the Henry
Moore Foundation was a real
treat this year. Not only were
the guides so informative but
we also had the chance to view
a major exhibition of Moore’s
drawing. Year 6 returned to
school so well-informed and inspired; ready to create etchings, paintings, pottery and even some animated morphing in
the style of the great English modernist sculptor and artist. They focussed on Moore’s love of sheep which he could see from the window of his studio.
A brilliant draughtsman as well as sculptor, Moore created some well-known sheep sculptures as well as a ‘Sheep Sketchbook’ of drawings which he presented to his daughter, Mary, in 1972.
Amanda Hay, Head of Art
Henry Moore was a coal miner’s son who fought in WWI and was badly injured in a gas attack in 1917. During WWII he was commissioned as a war artist. He studied at Leeds College of Art and attended the Royal College of Art.
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