The Art Museum is partnering ... each week’s lesson will be inspired by works in the Museum’s collections. In drawing and painting, a composition can be improved by considering the negative space. In ...

In Blackbird in Snow, the bird and branches take up positive space in the top half of the frame. The bottom half of the composition is almost entirely negative space. This creates a sense of ...

It was a lesson that has guided her ... actual portrait of it just as well." Negative Space is both title and central concept in this thoughtful book by art critic Cristin Leach.