Wood carving is a field that brings together the techniques of removing material (wood carving strictly speaking), as well as the techniques of adding material (wood sculpture). The wood sculptor, armed with his grinder, his grinding wheel, his router and his band saw, transforms the material in order to ennoble it with his creativity. Many artists have known how to flourish through this raw and vegetal medium. This is notably the case of Louise Nevelson, Ossip Zadkine and his cubist sculptures, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and her Dadaist compositions, Paul Gauguin, Barbara Hepworth and Juana Muller.
