Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Gestalt Theory

River of Ponds III - Frank Stella

The design for this print starts with a very simple shape - Four half circles, and squares are easy created by protractor, and ruler but the viewer can see the connection, emotion, and selected colors between those objects. 

Principles of design

M.C Escher's Symmetry Drawing

This is one of the sample of principles of design from M.C Escher's drawings. As above picture, Escher had used  principles of design such as emotion, composition, abstract, medium, balance, scale.. etc to create the
Symmetry Drawing. Everyone has their own vision, and it depends on which direction he/ she's viewing too.

It seems all the objects are moving around, connecting together, and unify a whole in a pattern. Also there is a few of objects had been laid out the edge of drawing, this makes the viewer's feeling likely the objects closed to him/ her or it's not like a focal point.