Gestalt

The word Gestalt is used in modern German to mean the way a thing has been placed or put together and it is also one of the most interesting theory of design field. In those Gestalt picture, people can feel that they see 2 different pictures only in one image by just some simple draw.

One of the central themes of the gestalt movement, "The whole is more than the sum of its parts." was earlier born by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) when he added the notion that simple ideals combine into a new totality that may bear little resemblance to its parts.

In fact, the founder of gestalt psychology was Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), he had an insight while riding a train that if two lights blink on and off at a certain rate, they give the impression that one light is moving back and forth.

Here are some pictures drawn by Gestalt style:

(http://people.csail.mit.edu/fredo/ArtAndScienceOfDepiction/figGroundVasa.gif)


(http://www.cres.org/star/RubinGestalt.gif)

(http://readingshakespeare.org/Lessons/CharacterReadingS/GestaltBeast.jpg)


(http://www.skagitwatershed.org/~donclark/hrd/history/gestalt.gif)