EXPLORING NEGATIVE-POSITIVE DRAWING: AN EXPERIMENT

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Drawing as a form of art does not cease in the use of lines to make a picture on a two-dimensional surface, but also includes the use of colours, tone and other elements, added with lines to make representation on a flat surface. In fact, throughout the history of visual representation, humans explored various unconventional materials in creating drawings on various surfaces. Palaeolithic drawings between 10,000 to 25,000 B.C. were discovered on cave walls and roofs in Nothern Africa and Southern European Countries such as in Lascaux, Dordogne and Chauvet Cave in Ardeche Valley both in France. “The famous wall paintings at Lascaux, in Dordogne include a wide range of animal species and a few human stick figures painted with earth-coloured pigments – brown, black, yellow and red. They are ground from ocher, hematite and manganese and applied to the natural white limestone surfaces of the walls. The Lascaux artists created their Figures by drawing an outline and filling it with pigment (Adams, 2000 p. 25). Those images were assumed to be their day-to-day experiences.