Void in paintings and Negative Enegy

As compared with music paintings are less energetic because the object(s) in the paintings do not move and remain still on a 2D surface. But you can feel or find some energy or movement in them.

Space - usually painted as air or sky in western paintings or Chinese landscape paintings (Shan Shui Paintings; 山水画）- has some function to show energy or even movement like sunshine or wind. Chinese Flowers and Birds Paintings (Hua Niao Hua; 花鸟画) and often Figure Paintings (Ren Wu Hua; 人物画) use also space as showing air or sky but quite often use space as purely space or void, nothing. In either case space shows some movement or more precisely ability to move. Where there is no space no movement is possible.

Direction - An arrow can show direction as a graphical sign and psychologically as well.

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Curve (gradual change) and abrupt change(s) of direction also can show movement.





A relatively large black or seemingly heavy object(s) like mountains or rocks (common objects in Chinese paintings) in paintings make us feel some energy too. These objects do not move even in the real world so they do not indicate movement. What kind of energy? We can call this energy as stationary or potential or negative energy. "negative" in this has no negative meaning but has even positive meaning. However when  positive is assigned for moving energy the stationary or potential energy will be negative, not neutral which is has no apparent energy or the state of positive-negative being cancelled out - equilibrium.

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