The narrow border between positive and negative feedback is what determines destruction or prosperity, Erdi writes. It can be ...

this preference for art was not seen when the content was positive. In the second study, when participants were directly asked to choose between a painting and a photograph of the same negative ...

Positive shapes are the shapes of actual objects. Negative shapes are the areas between these objects. The way positive and negative shapes act together creates the atmosphere of a composition.

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 ...