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Family Activities Henry Moore Back to a Land

Moore was brought up amongst the

back-to-back houses, factories, quarries

and mines of Castleford. As a boy, he

enjoyed cycling and exploring the Yorkshire

countryside. He believed that people and

the land were closely connected. Natural

forms such as clouds, trees, gnarled roots,

pebbles and bone all inspired his art.

Moore was amazed when he saw Stonehenge, the ancient standing stones, at night time. Henry Moore was born in 1898 in Castleford, just a few miles from Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He made sculptures to be seen outdoors, in nature. The weather, light and land around Moore’s sculptures are all part of how we experience them.

As a boy he remembered seeing huge stones in the

Yorkshire countryside and the slag heaps of the mines.

To him they looked like mountains or pyramids.

Imagine an object coming to life.

What would it do?

Talk to a grown up about what

they thought looked amazing when

they were little.

Find something ordinary and make it amazing.

Do any of his sculptures remind you

of people or rocks, hills and caves?

Moore felt his sculpture looked best in the open air, under the sky and in nature. The weather and different times of day change how sculptures look and even feel.

What is the weather like today?

Think about how cold it is, how sunny or cloudy. Is it wet or windy?

Be a living sculpture.

How does it feel to be out

in different weather?

Move into a pose as if it were snowing,

blowing a gale or blazing hot.

Ask someone to draw you.

Yorkshire Sculpture ParkWest BrettonWakefield WF4 4LGUnited Kingdom

ysp.co.uk @YSPsculpture

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

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.

Moore collected objects which he found in

nature, such as pebbles, shells and bone.

What happens to their shape?

Move them around to look like a sculpture.

Are they balancing?

Do you want them to touch?

Could your sculpture be a person?

He saw the human body as full of energy. He was

interested in the bones and muscles inside our bodies.

Clench your fist as tightly as you can.

Trace the outline of your hand sculpture.

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

Draw around two or three of your

objects again and again and again.

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

Choose three objects that you’ve found.

Draw the shape of bones and

knuckles through skin?

Use your hands to make interesting shapes. Do they make shadows?

Yorkshire Sculpture Park ysp.co.uk

Family Activities Henry Moore Back to a Land

Moore was brought up amongst the

back-to-back houses, factories, quarries

and mines of Castleford. As a boy, he

enjoyed cycling and exploring the Yorkshire

countryside. He believed that people and

the land were closely connected. Natural

forms such as clouds, trees, gnarled roots,

pebbles and bone all inspired his art.

Moore was amazed when he saw Stonehenge, the ancient standing stones, at night time. Henry Moore was born in 1898 in Castleford, just a few miles from Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He made sculptures to be seen outdoors, in nature. The weather, light and land around Moore’s sculptures are all part of how we experience them.

As a boy he remembered seeing huge stones in the

Yorkshire countryside and the slag heaps of the mines.

To him they looked like mountains or pyramids.

Imagine an object coming to life.

What would it do?

Talk to a grown up about what

they thought looked amazing when

they were little.

Find something ordinary and make it amazing.

Do any of his sculptures remind you

of people or rocks, hills and caves?

Moore felt his sculpture looked best in the open air, under the sky and in nature. The weather and different times of day change how sculptures look and even feel.

What is the weather like today?

Think about how cold it is, how sunny or cloudy. Is it wet or windy?

Be a living sculpture.

How does it feel to be out

in different weather?

Move into a pose as if it were snowing,

blowing a gale or blazing hot.

Ask someone to draw you.

Yorkshire Sculpture ParkWest BrettonWakefield WF4 4LGUnited Kingdom

ysp.co.uk @YSPsculpture

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

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.

Moore collected objects which he found in

nature, such as pebbles, shells and bone.

What happens to their shape?

Move them around to look like a sculpture.

Are they balancing?

Do you want them to touch?

Could your sculpture be a person?

He saw the human body as full of energy. He was

interested in the bones and muscles inside our bodies.

Clench your fist as tightly as you can.

Trace the outline of your hand sculpture.

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

Draw around two or three of your

objects again and again and again.

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

Choose three objects that you’ve found.

Draw the shape of bones and

knuckles through skin?

Use your hands to make interesting shapes. Do they make shadows?

Yorkshire Sculpture Park ysp.co.uk

Family Activities Henry Moore Back to a Land

Moore was brought up amongst the

back-to-back houses, factories, quarries

and mines of Castleford. As a boy, he

enjoyed cycling and exploring the Yorkshire

countryside. He believed that people and

the land were closely connected. Natural

forms such as clouds, trees, gnarled roots,

pebbles and bone all inspired his art.

Moore was amazed when he saw Stonehenge, the ancient standing stones, at night time. Henry Moore was born in 1898 in Castleford, just a few miles from Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He made sculptures to be seen outdoors, in nature. The weather, light and land around Moore’s sculptures are all part of how we experience them.

As a boy he remembered seeing huge stones in the

Yorkshire countryside and the slag heaps of the mines.

To him they looked like mountains or pyramids.

Imagine an object coming to life.

What would it do?

Talk to a grown up about what

they thought looked amazing when

they were little.

Find something ordinary and make it amazing.

Do any of his sculptures remind you

of people or rocks, hills and caves?

Moore felt his sculpture looked best in the open air, under the sky and in nature. The weather and different times of day change how sculptures look and even feel.

What is the weather like today?

Think about how cold it is, how sunny or cloudy. Is it wet or windy?

Be a living sculpture.

How does it feel to be out

in different weather?

Move into a pose as if it were snowing,

blowing a gale or blazing hot.

Ask someone to draw you.

Yorkshire Sculpture ParkWest BrettonWakefield WF4 4LGUnited Kingdom

ysp.co.uk @YSPsculpture

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

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.

Moore collected objects which he found in

nature, such as pebbles, shells and bone.

What happens to their shape?

Move them around to look like a sculpture.

Are they balancing?

Do you want them to touch?

Could your sculpture be a person?

He saw the human body as full of energy. He was

interested in the bones and muscles inside our bodies.

Clench your fist as tightly as you can.

Trace the outline of your hand sculpture.

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

Draw around two or three of your

objects again and again and again.

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

Choose three objects that you’ve found.

Draw the shape of bones and

knuckles through skin?

Use your hands to make interesting shapes. Do they make shadows?

Yorkshire Sculpture Park ysp.co.uk

Family Activities Henry Moore Back to a Land

Moore was brought up amongst the

back-to-back houses, factories, quarries

and mines of Castleford. As a boy, he

enjoyed cycling and exploring the Yorkshire

countryside. He believed that people and

the land were closely connected. Natural

forms such as clouds, trees, gnarled roots,

pebbles and bone all inspired his art.

Moore was amazed when he saw Stonehenge, the ancient standing stones, at night time. Henry Moore was born in 1898 in Castleford, just a few miles from Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He made sculptures to be seen outdoors, in nature. The weather, light and land around Moore’s sculptures are all part of how we experience them.

As a boy he remembered seeing huge stones in the

Yorkshire countryside and the slag heaps of the mines.

To him they looked like mountains or pyramids.

Imagine an object coming to life.

What would it do?

Talk to a grown up about what

they thought looked amazing when

they were little.

Find something ordinary and make it amazing.

Do any of his sculptures remind you

of people or rocks, hills and caves?

Moore felt his sculpture looked best in the open air, under the sky and in nature. The weather and different times of day change how sculptures look and even feel.

What is the weather like today?

Think about how cold it is, how sunny or cloudy. Is it wet or windy?

Be a living sculpture.

How does it feel to be out

in different weather?

Move into a pose as if it were snowing,

blowing a gale or blazing hot.

Ask someone to draw you.

Yorkshire Sculpture ParkWest BrettonWakefield WF4 4LGUnited Kingdom

ysp.co.uk @YSPsculpture

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

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.

Moore collected objects which he found in

nature, such as pebbles, shells and bone.

What happens to their shape?

Move them around to look like a sculpture.

Are they balancing?

Do you want them to touch?

Could your sculpture be a person?

He saw the human body as full of energy. He was

interested in the bones and muscles inside our bodies.

Clench your fist as tightly as you can.

Trace the outline of your hand sculpture.

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

Draw around two or three of your

objects again and again and again.

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

Choose three objects that you’ve found.

Draw the shape of bones and

knuckles through skin?

Use your hands to make interesting shapes. Do they make shadows?

During the Second World War, Moore drew

people sheltering against bomb attacks in

London Underground stations. He also went

down Wheldale Colliery, near Castleford, and

sketched the miners working at the coalface.

This was a very deep pit and miners had to walk

for a mile and crawl on hands and knees before

digging for coal in a space only three feet high.

What does it feel like being

cramped into a small space?

Back at home

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

See how the wax resists the paint.

Try scratching through the wax when it’s dry.

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

Use mud or grass to ‘shade in’ your drawing so it looks like a monumental stone sculpture. Does it still look like a person?

Crouch so that you can fit onto this

folded-out sheet. Ask a friend to draw

around you or try to do it yourself.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park ysp.co.uk

Family Activities Henry Moore Back to a Land

Moore was brought up amongst the

back-to-back houses, factories, quarries

and mines of Castleford. As a boy, he

enjoyed cycling and exploring the Yorkshire

countryside. He believed that people and

the land were closely connected. Natural

forms such as clouds, trees, gnarled roots,

pebbles and bone all inspired his art.

Moore was amazed when he saw Stonehenge, the ancient standing stones, at night time. Henry Moore was born in 1898 in Castleford, just a few miles from Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He made sculptures to be seen outdoors, in nature. The weather, light and land around Moore’s sculptures are all part of how we experience them.

As a boy he remembered seeing huge stones in the

Yorkshire countryside and the slag heaps of the mines.

To him they looked like mountains or pyramids.

Imagine an object coming to life.

What would it do?

Talk to a grown up about what

they thought looked amazing when

they were little.

Find something ordinary and make it amazing.

Do any of his sculptures remind you

of people or rocks, hills and caves?

Moore felt his sculpture looked best in the open air, under the sky and in nature. The weather and different times of day change how sculptures look and even feel.

What is the weather like today?

Think about how cold it is, how sunny or cloudy. Is it wet or windy?

Be a living sculpture.

How does it feel to be out

in different weather?

Move into a pose as if it were snowing,

blowing a gale or blazing hot.

Ask someone to draw you.

Yorkshire Sculpture ParkWest BrettonWakefield WF4 4LGUnited Kingdom

ysp.co.uk @YSPsculpture

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

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.

Moore collected objects which he found in

nature, such as pebbles, shells and bone.

What happens to their shape?

Move them around to look like a sculpture.

Are they balancing?

Do you want them to touch?

Could your sculpture be a person?

He saw the human body as full of energy. He was

interested in the bones and muscles inside our bodies.

Clench your fist as tightly as you can.

Trace the outline of your hand sculpture.

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

Draw around two or three of your

objects again and again and again.

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

Choose three objects that you’ve found.

Draw the shape of bones and

knuckles through skin?

Use your hands to make interesting shapes. Do they make shadows?