- http://www.gestalt-institute.com/fun.html
The above images display Gestalt principals
quite well. The first image, at first glance, appears to be a painting of a
brown rocky mountainside covered with snow. But as you look harder at the
painting you see white horses with brown spots. The image directly correlates
with one of Gestalts principals, which is camouflage in which there is little
or no separation between the foreground and the background. Another principal
of Gestalts that the picture represents is that the brain does not prefer
sudden or unusual changes in the movement of a line. The pictures of the camouflaged
horses on the mountain don’t create much tension to our eyes so that at a first
glance we don’t see the horses. The second image depicts a deer standing in a
snow-covered forest full of trees. If you just focus on the deer then there is
not much more to this picture, but as our eyes move away then we can see that
there is an even bigger deer. This deer is made of the trees in the background.
The deer that we see once we move our focus out to the whole picture can be
attested to the camouflage principal as well as common fate. Camouflage of
course since we can’t see the huge deer unless we focus on it. The common fate
principal is that a viewer mentally groups parts of the image together and any
discrepancy in the image creates tension. We grouped the forest as one, but
then the fact that the trees created a giant deer created tension in our vision,
which then made it possible for use to group that particular clump of trees
into an image of a deer.
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