subtractive

One I keep returning to is about additive versus subtractive solutions.

Traditional methods of wood shaping are subtractive and tend to produce large amounts of waste, which is usually discarded or recycled into materials like fuel, mulch, and animal bedding.

It was in that martyr city, among hollowed houses and numberless casualties, where Beckett’s subtractive vision began to crystallize into a new art of bleak hope.

It’s a subtractive primary color, which means it never really gets its due.

One of the more peculiar features of Morris’ art is that her compositions feel subtractive rather than additive.