Gestalt the practice of creating order and unity

Gestalt -the practice of creating order and unity in our visual field • Proximity • Similarity • Continuity

Proximity – the closeness of objects. FAT HER HAT RED PEN TAX Do you read them as 6 separate words or as 3? I 3 (1 and 3) I 3 (13 or B) I 3 OI 3 (13013 or BOB)

Proximity

Shen Chou Walking with a Staff

Henri Cartier-Bresson Abruzzi

Robert Longo Untitled (white riot)

Similarity – grouping of similar objects.

Sandy Skoglund Radioactive Cats

similarity

Grant Wood Daughters of Revolution

Henri Cartier-Bresson Madrid

Continuity - a grouping of objects that forms a visual path.

Roger van der Weyden Descent from the Cross

Theodore Gericault Raft of the Medusa

Closure - the mental process by which we complete ‘incomplete’ contours formed by elements in close proximity.

Giorgio de Chirico Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

Closure

Review Review

This image bests represents which Gestalt principle? • Similarity

What is the definition for similarity? • grouping of similar objects.

This image illustrates which Gestalt principle? • Continuity

What Gestalt principle does this illustration represent?

What is Gestalt? • The practice of creating order and unity in our visual field

terminology • Gestalt – Proximity – Similarity – continuity • Visual path • closure