Positive and Negative Space

David Nash "Standing Frame"

Nash liked this style or Art early, while still a student at the Chelsea School of Art in London. There he constructed enormous towers in the cityscape, which he made from scraps of found wood—a practice that led to his method of working in natural settings exclusively with dead or condemned trees. As his interest in the habits and properties of wood deepened, he began using as much of each tree as possible, even burning twigs to make drawing charcoal. Today he is associated with so-called British Land Art—modest alterations of the landscape by artists such as Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy.

Inspired by Katharina Fritsch

Katharina Fritsch, German, 1981/1989, mixed media

Katharina Fritsch is interested in how people see things. She changes the shape, color, size of things to allow the viewer to see it in a new way. This cat is actually a shoe scraper.

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