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Negative space
Space around an object / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the song by A Day to Remember, see Bad Vibrations. For the animated short film, see Negative Space (film).
Not to be confused with White space (visual arts).
In art and design, negative space is the empty space around and between the subject(s) of an image.[1] Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space occasionally is used to artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image.
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