Practice question · True or false
Negative space is empty and therefore contributes nothing to the composition.
Hints
- Ask what happens to a small subject when the empty area around it is cropped away.
- Emptiness is what sets the scale of what is not empty.
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False
Why
False. Negative space sets the scale of the subject, carries visual weight against it, and is the actual material of every tense arrangement in the lesson. A figure pressed into a corner is unsettling because of the emptiness in front of it; remove that and the tension goes with it.
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