INTRO TO MULTIMEDIA. MAT 103

Alejandra Jarabo
Multimedia Arts & Technologies Division. Santa Barbara City College
Art examples used to demonstrate visual perception fenomena

 

Images from "Art and Visual Perception, a psychology of the creative eye", Rudolf Arnheim.

 

Case example of how the Gestalt principle of Figure& background is used in art.
The next imges are figures from Pablo Picasso's drawings.
Notice how lines are defining 2 different forms at the same time, creating a "foreground on foreground effect".

case 1. gestalt image 1
  

 

case 2 .
 

 

case 3 .
 

 

case 4 .