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Figure/Ground
Positive/Negative Shape Relationships in 2D Art
Figure/Ground
• Figure/Ground: The figure is the subject (not necessarily a person, but the emotional focus), and the ground is the area that the figure occupies
Figure/Ground
• Positive: another name for the “figure”• Negative: another name for the “ground”
Face/Vase
• Rubin face/vase: example of the figure/ground flip.
• When you see the face it is the figure and the vase is the ground…when you see the vase the face is the ground
• Idea was created by a Dutch psychologist named Edgar Rubin in 1915.
Figure/Ground
• When you do two things at once you create a figure/ground relationship
• If you read a book while watching TV• If you text while driving• If you talk to a friend while studying
MC Escher
• Born in Holland and studied art at Harlem’s School of Architecture
• His works explore visual tricks and illusions• Used figure/ground to show transformation
of objects in his illustrations