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I was having trouble deciding what to write about this month, so I put out a plea to my Instagram followers and they didn't disappoint! One of the suggestions was "backgrounds."   What is a background? I googled "backgrounds in art" and found this great definition: "The background is the space in a piece of artwork that functions as a means to support and enhance [emphasis added] the main subject matter of the piece. It surrounds the objects in the piece and may include actual objects and people, or simply be empty negative space."* I selected a few paintings of mine to illustrate the various ways [...]