Today, Year 5 welcomed parents into our classroom to take part in a topic review. This half term, we have been learning all about art and sculpture, focussing on three key artists (Thomas Price, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth). The children discussed similarities and differences between the artists and their work:
Barbara Hepworth and William Moore are similar because they grew up going to the same art college and took ideas from each other.
Barbara introduced negative space in her sculptures and Henry adopted this idea. They are both very abstract.
Thomas Price is different because his work is very figurative as it’s based on real life and the human figure.
Then, the children had a go at sketching some work by our artists, looking for inspiration across different sculptures. Using this inspiration, we had a go at creating a mini sculpture of our own! The children worked carefully and you could really see their own ideas shining through, with little snippets of inspiration from our artists. Here are some of the results!
Help at home:
Next week, we will be sculpting using bars of soap! Please bring in some soap for this – we are hoping to have more than one go if possible.