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Welcome to Art with an Artist 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. oninteriordesign. com/on_interior_design/2009/10/negative-space-and-interior-design. html

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

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

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

Let’s look at some complicated shapes and find the positive and negative space. Where would which would meananother picture… The positive space is the car the positive space be in this picture? Let’s try the space around Image: http: //izmostock. photoshelter. com/image/I 0000 Xyu. Yt. K 5 Paco the car is the negative.

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

The stationary photograph, Looking at thismakes up the positive space. where would the positive spaces be in the picture? Which positive space is Let’s take a look at how negative and means the green table is the negative used to make art… space. Image: http: //cctmdev 2. londonmet. ac. uk/jem 0338/coursework 2/webpages/

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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 entire inside of a house! Here a few more other artworks Rachel has made and cast in concrete. Likeis a stairnegative how changed the pulls away Rachel positive space and the staircase Whiteread wood. become the space sculptures thatlook… Rachel is. Theconcrete dries Rachel castinnegativestaircase? thenegative look interested in spaceinterestedlarge space positive by filling With. Onceartwork Rachel hasdid creates. The space surrounding positive space. it Here. Like the Rachel shemaking she negativeentireunusualinto. Let’sstaircase. She this artistcase made from thehis photographs, become uses walls and Artist And was and then and is wooden Peter Wegner has now anstair casethethe space. take a with concrete. First Rachelcreate art thatconcrete of it filling and casting it in all a staircase buildings and houses. staircase, leavingspace aroundsee wood and nails. She like the points with things that we positive space to coversthe entry inside cast of the staircasemay Image: decided to highlight the space around the makes us by is the negative space. http: //iansdesignthingy. wordpress. com/tag/architecture/page/3/ then fills the negative space with concretesurrounding each step. and waits for at first. concrete. not have seen it to dry. 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 Let’s recap on what we havewe makeso far… play an important part in how learnt art…

What did we learn so far? Positive and negative space • are two completely different spaces. Positive space being the physical shape of something and the negative being the space around it. • seem to change places as seen in John Wegner’s photographs of the sky and city. • can be made into a sculpture like artist Rachel Whiteread has when she cast the negative space (or inside space) of a house.

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