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figure and ground
(redirected from Figure ground)

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figure and ground
n.
An aspect of perception in which the perceived is separated into at least two parts, each with different attributes but each influencing the other.


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Such differentiation can be considered as positive or negative, the substance of figure ground theory.
Students learn to deal with figure ground relationships by leaving some shapes empty, and by dealing with the picture plane as one of the shapes/spaces to be considered.
But the figure ground equation can also run the other way, with art becoming ground to life's figure.
 
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