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‖ horror vacui Art.|hɒrə ˈvækjuːaɪ|
[mod.L., lit. ‘the horror of a vacuum’.]
The dislike of leaving empty spaces, e.g. in an artistic composition.
1845W. Plate Ptolemy's Knowl. Arabia 5 Ptolemy had a tendency towards putting the inland towns too far east; but whether it was a mere horror vacui, or some misunderstanding, that induced him to do so, cannot be decided. 1937Burlington Mag. Apr. 183/1 Pictures..showing looser compositions, less horror vacui, and a less trenchant treatment of light and drapery. 1954M. Rickert Painting in Britain v. 108 True to the thirteenth century artist's horror vacui, he fills the lower corner of his miniature with more architecture..to balance that on the other side. 1960R. Lister Decorative Cast Ironwork iv. 123 Castings were used in place of hand-carved or forged iron fittings,..loading them with detail with which to placate the current horror vacui. 1968Listener 5 Dec. 774/2 A further tension builds up between the desire to create space and the desire to fill it. Sometimes the space-filling seems compulsive... Horror vacui struggles with claustrophobia. 1972E. Lucie-Smith Eroticism in Western Art ix. 180 Nudes..fill the whole picture-space as if the artist suffered from horror vacui. |