A few years ago while visiting the MoMA, I encountered a painting titled “I and the Village” by Marc Chagall. What I found fascinating about the piece was the lack of negative space; scanning the ...

When asked about negative space and what it adds to a garden, Laura Butera, Lead Designer at Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, explained, ‘Negative space is the intentional breathing room between ...

Douglas Thomas, assistant professor in the design department, lectures to students about negative spaces. The lecture is the first of the Faith and Works lecture series for the 2021-22 school year.

To get a new and different perspective, instead of painting the positive space, which includes people, objects, etc., artists sometimes paint the negative space, which is what is in between people, ...