Grade 9 Art - Day 23

In our study of visual art terminology, our next focus word is Space.

From our ArtTalk text, space is defined as "the emptiness or area between, above, around, below, or within objects.  You are a living, breathing form moving through space."

Positive and Negative Space: In all of the art that we create in this course, whether it is a sculpture or a subject in a drawing, your shape or form that you create is the positive space. The empty areas around your shape or form is called negative space.

In this photo, the subject, a hot air balloon, is the positive space, and everything else forms the negative space:

Here are some very interesting uses of positive and negative space:

First, Graphic designer Simon C. Page, uses the Joker and Batman!

And here is the American Institute of Architects logo:

And this image designed by Marion Boddy-Evans shows the relationship reversed: