Positive and negative space: silhouettes in mixed media
It ‘s very easy to identify the positive space of an image (that occupied by the subject), and at the same time identify the negative space (the one occupied by the background). But what happens if we try to get a positive space by painting the negative space? With the students of a class in Grade 8 we have prepared a collage colored surface and from this background we have “extracted” the figure, by painting the background around the figure with white tempera. The effect is of a cutout in reverse, and it is very effective to understand the importance of negative space, without which there would be no figure!
图像中的正空间（即主体所占空间）很容易辨认，同时也能轻易识别负空间（即背景所占空间）。但如果反过来，我们通过绘制负空间来获得正空间，会发生什么？在八年级一堂课上，我们与学生共同制作了一幅彩色拼贴底面；随后，以该底面为背景，用白色蛋彩颜料在剪影周围涂绘背景，从而“提取”出人物形象。这种效果相当于反向剪纸，能非常有效地帮助学生理解负空间的重要性——没有负空间，就无法确立主体形象！
