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Jeremy Leatinu’u
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Te Tuhi
Learning Experiences Outside the Classroom
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Welcome
Thank you for using this pre-visit resource.
We believe this will help strengthen student learning
leading up to and during your gallery visit.
Copies of the world
Te Tuhi Pre-visit lesson 1
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,
What is negative
Let’s take
and
a look…
positive space?
we can see there are positive and negative spaces.
The stool has become white. This
tells us
thatisthis
is positive space.
Here
a stool…
Let’s turn the lights off to help
see where
thethe
positive
and
Everything
around
stool is
black.
negative
spaces
This tells
us that
this isare.
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.
Image:http://izmostock.photoshelter.com/image/I0000XyuYtK5Paco
Where
would the
positive
space
be in this
picture?
The positive
space
isLet’s
the
car
try which
another
would
picture…
mean
the space around the car is the negative.
The
sky tower
surrounding
Looking
at thisand
night
time
buildings
become
positive
photograph,
wherethe
would
the
space
in space
this picture.
positive
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
up the
Looking
at thismakes
photograph,
positive
space.
where would
the positive spaces
be in this picture?
Which
the space
green table
Let’s take a look at how negative
andmeans
positive
is is
the negative space.
used to make art…
Image:http://cctmdev2.londonmet.ac.uk/jem0338/coursework2/webpages/
ArtistWhen
Peter
The
Peter’s
The
The
showing
Wegner
dark
photograph
Can
sky
photographs
buildings
you
originally
his
takes
find
photographs
now
photographs
and
the
negative,
use
makes
positive
cars
positive
are
Peter
us
now
space
of
the
look
and
tall
likes
appears
positive
at
buildings
innegative
to
the
both
display
shape
as
space
photographs?
positive
with
space
them
of
and
the
the
tosky
upside
space.
sky
sky,
help
in
in the
us
the
down.
centre.
ThisThe
creates
buildings
which
interesting
now
which
background
see
looks
shapes
were
thelike
world
positive,
and
a
is tall
the
inchanges
abuilding
negative
now
different
appear
inmade
space.
the
way.
as
image
ofnegative
sky.and landscape.
space.
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
Rachel
is aisstair
interested
case
made
in dries
making
from
wood.
the now
negative
The
stair
space
case
is the
positive
positive
space
byand
filling
andit
Once
the
The
concrete
negative
space
Rachel
has
then
become
pulls
away
thebecome
positive
the
wooden
space.
walls
Artist
Rachel
Whiteread
creates
large
and
unusual
sculptures
that
look
like
the
inside
Here
How
are
did
a she
few
more
fill
and
other
cast
artworks
the
negative
has
around
made
and
the
staircase?
cast
inand
concrete.
with
concrete.
First
the
Rachel
space
around
itallRachel
is
entry
the
negative
points
with
space.
wood
and
nails.
She
Like
With
artist
this
Peter
artwork
Wegner
Rachel
and
was
his
interested
photographs,
inspace
the
Rachel
negative
uses
space
negative
surrounding
positive
the
staircase,
leaving
acovers
concrete
cast
of
the
negative
space.
of Let’s
buildings
and
houses.
Like
the
staircase
she
has
changed
take
the
a look…
negative
space
into
positive
space.
then
fills
the
negative
space
concrete
for
to dry.
space
to
staircase.
create
art
She
that
decided
makes
to
us
fillsee
andwith
things
cast
the
thatnegative
weand
maywaits
space
not
have
initconcrete.
seen
at first.
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/
Image: http://www.artfund.org/artwork/8597/untitled-stairs
http://www.image-identity.eu/artists_images_folder/england/rachel-whiteread
As we have seen, positive and negative space can
Let’s recap on what we have learnt so far…
play an important part in how we make art…
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