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Copies of the world Te Tuhi Pre-visit lesson 1

Welcome to Copies of the world During the next few lessons we will be exploring… • Positive and negative space • Copy vs Original • The Art of Casting Image:http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/manhattan/uppermanhattan/hamiltonheights/ellisonmemorial/index.htm

Let’s start this lesson by exploring “Postive and negative space”. Image: http://www.murderati.com/positive-and-negative-spaces/

If we think about an object say a chair or stool, we can see there are positive and negative spaces. What is negative and positive space? Let’s take a look…

The stool has become white. This tells us that this is positive space. Here is a stool… Let’s turn the lights off to help see where the positive and negative spaces are. Everything around the stool is black. This tells us that this is negative space. Image: http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/51127207/29_Rubber_Wood_Bar_Stool.html

To help remember I was told… “for every positive shape there is a negative space surrounding it”. Text: http://artinspired.pbworks.com/w/page/13819678/Positive%20and%20Negative%20Space

Let’s look at some complicated shapes and find the positive and negative space. Where would the positive space be in this picture? The positive space is the car which would mean the space around the car is the negative. Let’s try another picture… Image:http://izmostock.photoshelter.com/image/I0000XyuYtK5Paco

The sky tower and surrounding buildings become the positive space in this picture. Which means the night sky is the negative space. Looking at this night time photograph, where would the positive space be in this picture? Let’s try another picture… Image: http://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?id=58417

The stationary makes up the positive space. Looking at this photograph, where would the positive spaces be in this picture? Which means the green table is the negative space. Let’s take a look at how negative and positive space is used to make art… Image:http://cctmdev2.londonmet.ac.uk/jem0338/coursework2/webpages/

Artist Peter Wegner takes photographs of tall buildings with the sky in the centre. The dark buildings and cars are the positive space and sky in the background is the negative space. When showing his photographs Peter likes to display them upside down. This creates interesting shapes and changes in the image and landscape. The sky originally negative, now appears as positive space. The buildings which were positive, now appear as negative space. Peter’s photographs use positive and negative space to help us see the world in a different way. The photograph now makes us look at the shape of the sky, which now looks like a tall building made of sky. Can you find the positive space in both photographs? Image: http://bagofbrains.com/2011/01/18/buildings-sky-peter-wegner/ http://blog.sfmoma.org/2012/01/collection-rotation33/

Rachel cast the inside space of a room. In the front of the sculpture you can see where the fireplace would have been. Rachel cast the space underneath wooden seats. Rachel cast the inside of an entire house! Here is a stair case made from wood. The stair case is the positive space and the space around it is the negative space. Rachel is interested in making the negative space become positive by filling it with concrete. First Rachel covers all entry points with wood and nails. She then fills the negative space with concrete and waits for it to dry. Once the concrete dries Rachel then pulls away the wooden walls and staircase, leaving a concrete cast of the negative space. The negative space has now become the positive space. Artist Rachel Whiteread creates large and unusual sculptures that look like the inside of buildings and houses. Here are a few more other artworks Rachel has made and cast in concrete. Like the staircase she has changed the negative space into positive space. How did she fill and cast the negative space around the staircase? Let’s take a look… Like artist Peter Wegner and his photographs, Rachel uses negative and positive space to create art that makes us see things that we may not have seen at first. With this artwork Rachel was interested in the negative space surrounding the staircase. She decided to fill and cast the negative space in concrete. Image: http://iansdesignthingy.wordpress.com/tag/architecture/page/3/ http://farticulate.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/21-december-2010-post-rachel-whiteread-selected-sculptures-interview/ http://www.image-identity.eu/artists_images_folder/england/rachel-whiteread Image: http://www.artfund.org/artwork/8597/untitled-stairs

As we have seen, positive and negative space can play an important part in how we make art… Let’s recap on what we have learnt so far…

What have we learnt so far? Positive and negative space… • are two different spaces. Positive space is the physical shape of something and negative space is the space around it. • can appear reversed through photography like John Wegner’s upside down photographs. • can be made into a sculpture by casting the negative space like Rachel Whiteread’s sculptures.

In the next lesson we will explore “Copy vs Original”. End of lesson

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