(picture from Google images)"Gestalt is a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts"
-dictionary.com
Looking at the above image, you can either see a man playing the saxophone, or a woman's face. These to figures are not created by the positive space, but rather how our brains perceive the positive against the negative. Thus the meaning of the image is greater than its actually parts, because it requires more than the positive to define it.
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