negative space


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negative space

n.
Empty or subordinate space surrounding an object of perception, conceived in terms of its aesthetic effect.
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It is not unknown that the internet can be a negative space. Therefore, the actor who has around 60 million fans and followers felt the need to start a conversation about things that aren't right can be sorted out with a discussion.
Katara Opera House, 7pm: The Resilience selection -- Commodity City, Carlotta's Face, I Don't Believe in You But Then There is Gravity, Inanimate, Brotherhood, The Craft, Transformation and Negative Space. (TNN)
Speaking ahead of the release on fellow singer Jessie Ware's podcast Table Manners, Cheryl admits she felt like she was living in a "negative space" during her hiatus from the music industry.
negative space for interesting quilting, appealed to her.
As winds eventually dispersed the sand on top, the negative space where the dune once stood was preserved as a pit on the martian surface.
Other individuals invited who were involved in creating Japanese content include director Ru Kuwahata ('Negative Space,' 'Something Left, Something Taken'), director Atsuko Hirayanagi ('Oh Lucy!'), director Sion Sono ('Tokyo Vampire Hotel,' 'The Whispering Star,' 'Suicide Club,' 'Tokyo Tribe'), actors Takeshi Kaneshiro ('Red Cliff,' 'House of Flying Daggers') and Issei Ogata ('Silence,' 'Yi Yi') and designer Keiko Mitsumatsu ('Our Little Sister/Umimachi Diary,' 'Nobody Knows').
In the translators statement discussing her 2016 NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, Ani Gjika contends that the concept of "negative space" in the work of poet Luljeta Lleshanaku enables the author to "look back at the reality of her Albanian past, giving voice to those who have historically failed to speak up for themselves." In a postcommunist era marked by a "new code of sanctification," the poet speaks for herself as well, moving beyond the bunker mentalities of the twentieth century.
"Dear Basketball" - together with "Garden Party", "Lou", "Negative Space" and "Revolting Rhymes" - was nominated for the 90th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California.
"From the Chinese I have learned a new understanding of positive and negative space and a reverence for the accidental mark.
Negative space is a positive trend not because negative and positive attract each other in physics, but because in graphic aesthetics negative space techniques evoke quite positive emotions.