Reflection 7: Figure Ground and Gestalt

On week 7 lecture, the video about the labyrinth where the girl tries to get the baby but the labyrinth is messed up. The stairs are tangled and stairs have different gravity. At some point the baby is upside down and the girl is has to walk other way to get the baby. In the end, the girl just jumps down to get the baby. The art in this movie was in my opinion that it messes up watchers mind and let them think what if they would be trapped in this labyrinth stairs.


This art was applied to the movie and also the girl searching for the baby problem was added.

The law of prägnanz is about fundamental principles of gestalt perception. Normally we think of things straight, symmetric and simple but in this law, it breaks the way we like to think. The 5 law of prägnanz are Figure & ground, Proximity, Similarity, Continuity and Closure. This is to somehow disturb or make the watcher see something out of ordinary.



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