Wednesday 3 December 2014

Week 5_Task_Gestalt Law


Gestalt Law or Gestaltism is the theory of how people tend to visualise or organise visual elements into a unified whole. M.C Escher applies this law to his work by using the following principles:

1. Pegasus (No.105):
This picture is demonstrates Gestalt Law by using symmetry, figure and ground. The picture is composed purely of the same pegasus. There are two colours being used to differentiate between the pegasus however this also creates the illusion of background surrounding a figure. i.e. if looking at the white pegasus, they are surrounded by a brown ground.


 2. Day and Night
Uses a combination of the the Continuation and Reification principle. The eye is compelled to naturally follow the line of the perceived diamond. It goes from the birds above moving diagonally to the city below through the fields.



 3. Ascending and Descending
Escher  relates to the gestalt law in this picture using the multistability or multistable perception principle. The eye is going back and forth between two alternative interpretations of the stairs.


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