![]() An example would be a flow line going through another image and you are compelled to follow the flow like a river but you still notice the two separate images as separate even though they are made as one. The fourth is Continuity or Continuation – when happens when your eye and brain are moved through an image to another object. The third principle is Closure, which happens when an image is present and it is not complete, but the persons perception completes the image. The second is Proximity – which means that the items are put close together to that people see them as a group. ![]() The first is Similarity – which means that a group or grouping that looks like a single unit because the shapes are the same or similar in some way. There are six principles to the Gestalt Perception. The main theorists responsible for this study were Johann Wolfgang von Goeth, Ernst Mach, and Christian von Ehrenfels and the researchers responsible are Kurt Lewin, Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Kohler (Gestalt Theory of Visual Perception, n.d.). What does Gestalt mean? According to (The Gestalt Principles, n.d & Behrens, 1998), Gestalt is a psychology term that means “unified whole.” The Gestalt theorists came about in the 1920’s and were the first to investigate perceptual organization in Germany. In this blog, I will be talking about some history to this principle and other forms that this takes place in our lives. With this we can see that two images can occupy the same space. The example that most of us have seen is the image of the chalice or vase where when looked at we see either a chalice or vase or a set of faces looking toward one another. The Gestalt Principles are used in art and advertising and can be included in recreational fun. ![]() Quite a few people, including myself, would say we have no experience or knowledge to what that is, but we all have come into contact with it in our lives and have not known it. When most of us hear the Gestalt Principles we tend to draw on blank expressions.
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