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Quasi-Negative Space in Painting
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 19, Number 2, April 1986
- pp. 141-144
- Article
- Additional Information
The author discusses the duality of positive and negative spaces in painting. He proposes a method of modifying negative spaces into a new pictorial field which he calls ‘quasi-negative space’. By interacting between the positive and negative spaces, the quasi-negative space can contribute to greater expressive power, to better visual balance and on some occasions to the illusion of dimensional space in an abstract painting.