Outline

The artist that created this piece is called Jaune quick-to-see Smith and is called the The Red Mean: Self Portrait. It was made in 1992. This is to be considered an outline type of art. Outline the edge of a shape or figure depicted by an actual line drawn or painted in the surface. By that definition the art work is just that a red figure, an X circled over the rest of the art. And your eyes seem to gravitate to that image maybe how the artist wanted by choosing the red color and creating a lighter, less noticeable background.