Gestalt Principles – Invariance

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology
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Artist: Édouard Manet
Title of Work: Le Bar Aux Folie Bergere
Year Produced: 1882
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Source: http://www.andrewgrahamdixon.com/archive/readArticle/121

The gestalt Principle of invariance basically means that even if an image is warped, turned, stretched, or distorted, we can still recognize that it is the same image. The first picture is the basic rundown of this idea, that through many different types of change we can still recognize that all of those shapes are the same shape. The bottom piece is a good example of this, that we can tell, even though the reflection is a turned version, as well as being distorted, that the reflection is the reflection of the woman.

Gestalt Principles – Reification

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The Gestalt Principle of Reification is the idea that the image your viewing contains more spatial information than what it provides in positive space. This is a basic example of reification, its a simple concept, so it’s not normally used so plainly in artwork. Basically, reification is the idea that there is information in the negative space that is created through the use of the positive space; as shown above, the separate shapes put together in a particular way create another shape in the negative space.

Gestalt Principles – Emergence

Artist: Unknown, made for the World Wildlife Foundation
Title of work: Unknown
Year Produced: Unknown
Medium: Digital/Print
Source: http://sites.duke.edu/tlge/2010/04/13/world-wildlife-fund-conservation-projects/

Source:http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/design-theory/the-gestalt-principle-design-theory-for-web-designers/
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The gestalt principle of emergence is the principle that your brain can create complex pictures from simple patterns. Two examples of this are the WWF logo, and the famous picture of the sniffing dalmatian. In both pictures, you are only given simple shapes, but because they are arranged in such a way to create some characteristics of a certain animal (a panda in the WWF logo, and a dalmatian in the bottom piece), your brain automatically fills in whats missing to allow you to view a much more complex form than what is present in the base design.