It's called negative painting because it refers to the technique of painting or utilising the area of negative space around a subject. You are effectively, painting the negative spaces in order to leave the positive shapes.Negative spaces on a painting are those empty areas that surround your subject. The positive spaces or positive shapes, are the subject itself.
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