Microteaching for the course in Leeds July 2013 by Sonia Arnedo, Rodrigo Hernández, Aitziber Rubio y Pilar Toro.

1. becoming
abstractLeeds, July 2013
Sonia Arnedo, Rodrigo Hernández , Aitziber Rubio, Pilar Toro

2. STAGE 1.- INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW
STAGE 2.- BECOMING ABSTRACT BY DRAWING
STAGE 3.- INTRODUCING NEW CONCEPTS: LIFELIKE/ ABSTRACT
STAGE 4.- PRESENTING THE ARTIST
4.1.- Biography
4.2.- Ancient sculpture: becoming abstract
4.3.- Landscape: becoming abstract
STAGE 5.- 3D EXPERIENCE: CREATING AN ABSTRACT SCULTURE

3. STAGE 1. INTRODUCTION AND
REVISION
AITZIBER

5. NATURAL / ARTIFICIAL

6. ORGANIC / GEOMETRIC

7. TWO-DIMENSIONAL / THREE-DIMENSIONAL

9. STAGE 2. BECOMING ABSTRACT
BY DRAWING
STAGE 3. INTRODUCTING NEW
CONCEPTS
RODRIGO

10. BECOMING ABSTRACT
EXERCISE I
Duration
1 minute
Subject
A portrait of your classmate
Technique
Continuous contact. Not looking at your
drawing.
Materials
Pencil or pen on white paper.

11. Method
• Put yourselves in pairs and turn to face one another.
• Place a piece of paper on the table and choose the material you most
like: pencil, pen, etc.
• Place the pencil on the paper.
• You are going to draw a portrait of your classmate in one minute
without being able to see what you are drawing.
• Try to keep the pencil in contact with the paper, pull and push the
pencil around. That is, you can’t lift the pencil from the paper once you
have started the drawing.
Not looking at your drawing is necessary to achieve the purpose of the
activity.
To focus your entire attention on the visual information (the face of your
model: classmate)
To remove all attention from the drawing.
If you see what you draw, you will tend to focus on details and defeat the
purpose of the exercise.

12. Lifelike shape
Representing things as they are in
real life, so, as they really look.
Abstract shape
Not representing people or
things in a realistic way.

13. Las Meninas
by Diego
Velázquez
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
Composition VIII by
W. Kandinsky
White on White by Kazimir Malevich

15. STRUCTURES:
My picture is more __________ than yours.
My picture is less ____________ than yours.

16. Las Meninas
by Diego
Velázquez
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
Composition VIII by
W. Kandinsky
White on White by Kazimir Malevich
I prefer the __________ picture because …..

17. STAGE 4. PRESENTING THE ARTIST
• 4.1 Biography
• 4.2 Ancient Culture: becoming abstract
• 4.3Landscape: becoming abstract
(4.1-4.2) SONIA / (4.3) AITZIBER

18. THE SCULPTOR HENRY MOORE
‘I think in shapes not words‘

19. Henry Spencer Moore was born in Castleford, Yorkshire, England in 1898.

20. Henry Moore decided he wanted to become a sculptor at the age of eleven.

21. CARVING: is one of the sculptural
techniques. Is a sculpture created by
removing materials (as wood or stone)
in order to create a desired shape.
The sculptor removes material using
chisels and other tools.
Chisel
CLAY: is a natural
earthy material that
is plastic when
wet, used for
making
bricks, pottery, etc

22. With eighteen years old served to his king and country as a soldier in the
cold war for two years. He back home more mature and ready for what to
do with his life.

23. He studied sculpture at Leeds, and became the teacher of his first
school, moved to London and teaching there too and then he decided to
spend some time abroad. He went to lots of places in Italy. The 1920s was
a period of research and exploration for Moore.

24. But his work was different and not everybody understood it.

25. And he continuous travelling and meeting other artists as
Picasso, Giacometti, Arc, Greco's works in Toledo, Spain.

26. He became a well known artist because of the shelters drawings during
World War II

27. In 1943 Canon Walter Hussey, an Anglican Clergyman asked Moore for a
Madonna and Child for his church.
The theme of mother and child went back when his daughter born is 1946

28. In 1946 Moore had made his first visit to New York

29. Moore received increasingly prestigious commissions abroad. At the same
time, demands for exhibitions of his work continued to increase, both in
number and in scale. By the end of the seventies the number of exhibitions
were about forty a year.
EVERY BODY
WANTS A HENRY
MOORE!

30. Henry Moore died on 31st August 1986. He was 88.
Moore’s career spanned over fifty years .
That’s a lot of sculptures!

31. ANCIENT ART – HENRY MOORE

32. King
and
Queen
King and Queen, 1952-1953, Bronze
Egyptian effigy of a
married couple
Demeter and
Persephone in a Wagon

33. Draped Reclining Figures
In the early 1950s, Moore went to Greece and
was influenced by ancient Greek and Roman
sculpture but his figures are bigger.
Draped Reclining Figure, 1952-53. Bronze.
Ancient Greek Sculpture Draped Seated Woman 1957
Diane und Aphrodite, east pediment
of the Parthenon

34. Timeless Figures
Figure A
This simplified, stylized stone sculpture
of the ancient Mexican figure known as
a Chacmool (chock-MOOL), gave Moore
the idea for his reclining figure.
Figure B
Reclining Woman 1929, Brown stone
Figure A
Chacmoo. 9th-13th Century , Mexico
Figure B
Moore created his first relining figures during
the 1920s. Carved out of stone, the figure is
realistic but highly simplified. It has the
strong, solid shape and rough texture of the
ancient Mexican sculptures that Moore
admired.

35. Reclining Figures
Henry Moore’s sculpture is
always based on the human
figure; most are a reclining
female.
His figures are partly inspired from
his youth when he rubbed his
reclining mother’s back while she
was suffering from arthritis.

37. GUIDELINES:
THEMES:
RECLININIG FIGURES
MOTHER AND CHILD
FAMILY GROUPS
THE SHELTER DRAWINGS
INFLUENCES:
1)HISTORICAL EVENTS:
• First World War
• Spanish Civil War
• The Cold War
• The second World War
2) ANCIENT ART( Archaic Greek,
African Art, Oceanic Art and
Mexican Art)
3) LANDSCAPES:

38. Landscape: becoming abstract

39. Moore’s sculpture and the landscape
Moors
Hills

40. Moore’s sculpture and the landscape
Caverns
Rock
Arch

41. Moore’s sculpture and the landscape
Tree trunk
Cliffs

42. STAGE 5. 3D EXPERIENCE: CREATING
AN ABSTRACT SCULPTURE
PILAR

43. CARVING
Chisel
CLAY

44. Modelling
Is a type of additive sculpture in
which material is added and/or
shaped to create a form.

45. Casting
Uses liquid materials such as plaster
poured in a cast which then hardens
to create a new solid form

46. Assemblage
Is used when combining element
much like collage except that it is
three-dimensional

50. A sculpture is a person who is interested in
the shape of things, a poet in words,
a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore