After creating our portraits, we moved on to looking at some renowned artists. Our first amazing artist was Henry Moore. Some believe him to be the most famous British artist of the 20^th century. We focused mainly on his bronze body sculptures during our art lessons. His sculptures are semi-abstract. This means that they are more representational rather than realistic. Lots of people think the wavy, rolling shapes in his sculptures are supposed to remind us of the landscape of Yorkshire, where Henry Moore grew up. Three examples of Henry Moore’s famous pieces of work are the Harlow Family Group, The Arch and King and Queen but he created over 1000 sculptures during his career.

After our work on the sculptures of Henry Moore, we began to look at our second amazing artist: Hung Liu. She was born in China but moved to America when she was in her 30’s. Initially, her art focused on photography and sketches of her neighbours in China. Then, at university, she specialised in mural painting. She became most famous for her paintings but she did create some well-known mixed media pieces too. Liu’s painting style combines historical photographs with imagery from Chinese painting, as well as objects like ancient Chinese pottery and bronzes. Three examples of her work are Sisters, Winter Blossom and Yellow River. She tried to use her art to represent women and children too. 

 Another artist that we have studied is a Swiss artist, Alberto Giacometti. He was a famous 20^th century sculptor too. Like Henry Moore, he also made sculptures. He focused on the human body. During World War Two, he made sculptures of people he knew, from memory. Because of this, he started to make his sculptures smaller and smaller. For six years, the sculptures that he created were never any taller than 7cm. This changed after the war and he started to create large, thin sculptures. During this time, he created one of his most famous pieces: Man Pointing. In 2015, it became the world’s most expensive piece of sculpture sold at an auction in America. It sold for one hundred and forty one million dollars! Some of his other famous pieces include City Square and The Chariot. His sculptures were influenced by cubism and surrealism. Surrealism means art that is about dreams, fantasies and things that could not be real. Cubism means using different views of a subject together in the same picture.