QUARTER 2 WEEK 1

THE MUSIC, VIDEO CLIPS, AND PICTURES PLAYED IN THIS VIDEO IS A COPY RIGHTED MATERIAL
BELONGING TO ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS, AND NO PART IS OWNED BY TEACHER JJ. UPLOADED
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND NOT FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSE, HENCE COPYRIGHT
INFRINGEMENT IS NOT INTENDED.
Good day to all
WELCOME
to SPA VISUAL ARTS

Happy new year!

REVIEW
What are the
different Visual Do you always
What have you
Art Elements that practice using
learned from
we discussed last those elements
those Elements?
year? at home?
QUARTER 2 WEEK 1
DAY 1: ACTIVITY1: EXTREMITIES (HUMAN BODY)
DAY 2: READING: GESTALT IN VISUAL ARTS
DAYS 3 AND 4: PROJECT: BANIG DESIGN MAKING (COLORED PAPER)
DAY 5: REFLECTION: WRITE ABOUT THE WEEK’S LESSONS IN YOUR
VISUAL ARTS JOURNAL
ACTIVITY 1: EXTREMITIES (HUMAN BODY)
TIME ALLOTMENT: 60 MINUTES
In this activity, we will be familiarized with the parts, extremities, proportions and
measurements of our human body.
Instructions:
1. Look for printed magazines, pictures, images of human person
(with head to foot, any position but with two hands).
2. Cut the human body from the picture or remove the background of
the person.
3. Create or identify the parts of the human body that you will cut.
4. Cut the extremities within the picture.
5. Paste it into a clean Bond Paper or in your Visual Arts Journal.
6. Create forms in between those cuts to show flesh or veins.
REFLECTION #1
GET YOUR VISUAL ARTS
JOURNAL AND WRITE YOUR
THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS
EXERCISE. USE THE FOLLOWING
GUIDE QUESTIONS:

1. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT

YOUR OUTPUT FOR THE
ACTIVITY?

2. WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE ON

THE CUTTING AND THE
PARTITIONING OF THE FIGURES?

3. ARE YOU HAPPY AND

CONTENTED WITH YOUR
OUTPUT?
READING: GESTALT IN VISUAL ARTS
For today’s lesson, you will study about Gestalt theory, a
theory about perception, holds that the whole is more
than the sum of its parts and we will use it in Visual Arts.
It describes our ability to: Recognize patterns and make
associations; group objects that are close together into a
larger unit; relate and group objects of similar shape.
READING: GESTALT IN VISUAL ARTS
The study of Gestalt (German: meaning shape, figure, form)
originated in Germany in the 1920s. It is a branch of psychology
that is interested in higher order cognitive processes relative to
behaviorism. The aspects of gestalt theory that interests
designers are related to the theory’s postulations of visual
perception—principally the relationship between the parts and
the whole of visual experience.
THE VISUAL WORLD IS SO COMPLEX THAT THE
MIND HAS DEVELOPED STRATEGIES FOR
COPING WITH THE CONFUSION. THE MIND TRIES
TO FIND THE SIMPLEST SOLUTION TO A
PROBLEM. ONE OF THE WAYS IT DOES THIS IS
TO FORM GROUPS OF ITEMS THAT HAVE
CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS IN COMMON.
Most of what you will study about
gestalt is concerned with how these
groups are formed and what effect they
have on perception. The stronger the
grouping, the stronger the gestalt. It is
this grouping that contributes to the unity
in a design. Gestalt is one of the most
powerful tools available to a designer for
creating unity.
PARTS
PROPERTIES THE KEY PRINCIPLES OF
GESTALT SYSTEMS:
1. EMERGENCE
2. REIFICATION
3. MULTISTABILITY
4. INVARIANCE AND
5. PRÄGNANZ
1. EMERGENCE
Emergence This is demonstrated by the
perception of the Dog Picture, which
depicts a Dalmatian dog sniffing the
ground in the shade of overhanging
trees. The dog is not recognized by first
identifying its parts (feet, ears, nose, tail,
etc.) and then inferring that it is a the
dog from those component parts.
Instead, the dog is perceived as a whole,
all at once. However, this is a description
of what occurs in vision and not an
explanation. Gestalt theory does not
explain how the percept of a dog
emerges.
2. REIFICATION Reification This is the constructive or
generative aspect of perception, by
which the experienced percept contains
more explicit spatial information than the
sensory stimulus on which it is based.
For instance, a triangle will be perceived
in picture A, although no triangle has
actually been drawn. In pictures B and D,
the eye will recognize disparate shapes
as “belonging” to a single shape. In C, a
complete three-dimensional shape is
seen, where in actuality no such thing is
drawn. Reification can be explained by
progress in the study of illusory contours,
which are treated by the visual system as
“real” contours.
3. MULTISTABILITY
Multi-stable perception is the tendency
of ambiguous perceptual experiences to
pop back and forth unstably between two
or more alternative interpretations. This
is seen for example in the Necker cube,
and in Rubin’s Figure / Vase illusion,
center. Other examples include the three-
pronged widget and artist M. C. Escher’s
artwork and the appearance of flashing
marquee lights moving first one direction
and then suddenly the other. Again,
Gestalt does not explain how images
appear multistable, only that they do.
POSITIVE
AND
NEGATIVE
SPACE
4. INVARIANCE Invariance The property of perception
whereby simple geometrical objects are
recognized independent of rotation,
translation and scale; as well as several
other variations such as elastic
deformations, different lighting, and
different component features. For example,
the objects in A in the figure are all
immediately recognized as the same basic
shape, which are immediately
distinguishable from the forms in B. They
are even recognized despite perspective
and elastic deformations as in C, and when
depicted using different graphic elements
as in D. Computational theories of vision,
such as those by David Marr, have had
more success in explaining how objects are
classified.
 Prägnanz - We like to create simplicity and order in
what we see The fundamental core of gestalt
perception is the law of prägnanz (German for
pithiness) which says that we tend to order our
experience in a manner that is regular, orderly,
5. PRÄGNANZ symmetric and simple. In attempts to discover
refinements of the law of prägnanz, Gestalt
psychologists have defined a few laws which
hypothetically allow us to predict the interpretation of
sensation.
HOW WE
SEE?
Law of Closure — The mind may experience elements it does not
perceive through sensation in order to complete a regular figure (that is,
to increase regularity).
Law of Similarity — The
mind groups similar
elements into collective
entities or totalities. This
similarity might depend
on relationships of form,
color, size, or brightness.
Law of Proximity —
Spatial or temporal
proximity of elements
may induce the mind to
perceive a collective or
totality.
Law of Symmetry—
Symmetrical images are
perceived collectively
even in spite of distance.
The eye prefers
explanations with
greater symmetry.
Law of Continuity — The
mind continues visual,
auditory and kinetic
patterns. Even if a line
stops, the viewer is able
to follow it.
Through Reversible Images
Law of Common Fate —
Elements with the same
moving direction are
perceived as a collective
or unit.
Through Perspective
Through Orientation
Through Colors and
Gradients
REFLECTION 2
GET YOUR VISUAL ARTS JOURNAL AND WRITE DOWN
YOUR THOUGHTS USING THE FOLLOWING GUIDE
QUESTIONS:

1. HOW DO YOU SEE ALL THINGS AROUND YOU AFTER THE LESSON?
2. WHY GESTALT CONCEPT IS VERY IMPORTANT?
3. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT GESTALT CONCEPTS THAT YOU
ENCOUNTER IN THE PAST AND YOUR EXPERIENCES? SHARE IT TO
YOUR PARENTS AND FRIENDS.
PROJECT : BANIG DESIGN MAKING (Colored Paper)
Time Allotment: 3 Hours

With Gestalt concepts, Using Colored paper, create a Banig design by weaving cut stripped colored
paper, use different color combinations. Paste your work into you Visual Arts Journal. Take a selfie
and or picture and post or share your work to your Facebook wall / account. Enjoy your work.
Sorry for the delay, dutay
lang sa for Second
Grading a, pero bawi nya
ta class. Salamat.
-Sir JJ