Group 10 *Camouflage-deliberate alteration of Perception of Space: Perspective

figure-ground so that the figure blends into

Art and Psychology: Perception and the ground. Space - In terms of art, space is the area
Symbolism around, above, and within an object. As one
of the classic seven elements of art, refers
Art ‘the expression or application of human SIMILARITY “Elements
to distances or areas around, between, and
creative skill and imagination, typically in a that share similar
within components of a piece.
visual form such as painting or sculpture, characteristics are
producing works to be appreciated perceived as more related than elements Positive space refers to the subject of the
primarily for their beauty or emotional that don't share those characteristics.” piece itself
power.’
PROXIMITY “Objects Negative space is the empty spaces the
Psychology ‘the science of mind and that are closer together artist has created around, between, and
behavior’ are perceived as more within the subjects.
Application of the Principles of Gestalt in related than objects that are further apart.”
Visual Art
CLOSURE “When seeing
GOOD FIGURE, a complex arrangement
LAW OF of elements, we tend to
SIMPLICITY look for a single, recognizable pattern.”
“People will perceive
and interpret ambiguous or complex images CONTINUATION
as the simplest form(s) possible.” “Elements arranged on a
line or curve are perceived
“The whole is other than the sum of the as more related than elements not on the
parts.” — Kurt Koffka line or curve.” Space perception, process through which
humans and other organisms become
PRINCIPLES: SYMMETRY aware of the relative positions of their own
AND ORDER bodies and objects around them. Space
FIGURE/GROUND “People tend to perceive objects as perception provides cues, such as depth
“Elements are perceived symmetrical shapes that form around their
and distance, that are important for
as either figure (the center.”
movement and orientation to
element in focus) or ground (the background the environment.
on which the figure rests).”
Perspective- is an art technique for creating
an illusion of three-dimensions (depth and
space) on a two-dimensional (flat) surface.
Linear Perspective-a system of creating
an illusion of depth on a flat surface. All
parallel lines (orthogonals) in a painting
or drawing using this system converge in a
single vanishing point on the composition’s
horizon line.
Viewpoint in perspective
Viewpoint is the spot (point) from which
you, the artist, is looking at (viewing) the
scene. Linear perspective is worked out
according to this viewpoint.
Normal viewpoint is how an adult sees the
world when standing up.
A high viewpoint is when you're looking
down on a scene.
A low viewpoint is when you're looking at a
scene from much lower than you would
standing up.
Symbolism meaning: Psychoanalysis of
Artwork and the Artist
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Mona Lisa
The Virgin and Child with
St. Anne
The Vulture
Fantasy
In the passage where he speaks about the
Flight of the Vulture, he interprets his
memory from very early years which came
to his mind
“It seems that it had been destined before
that I should occupy myself so thoroughly
with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as
a very early memory, when I was still in the
cradle, a vulture came down to me, he
opened my mouth with his tail and struck
me a few times with his tail against my lips.”
Exhibit 1: He lived as an apprentice in the
house of his master Verrochio. He with
other young men were accused of
forbidden homosexual relations.
Exhibit 2: He was a master, he surrounded
himself with handsome boys and youth
whom he took as pupils.
Exhibit 3: His last pupil Francisco Melzi,
accompanied him to France, remained with
him until his death and was named as his
heir. He was considerate towards his pupils,
cared for tem and nursed them when they
were ill, just like a mother nurses his
children, as his non-mother might have
cared for him.
Exhibit 4: In an essay of Conference
Fiorentine, the utterance of Leonardo are
cited
“Nessuna cosa si puo amare ne odiare, se
prima no si ha cognition de guella.”
(One has no right to love or to hate anything
if one has not acquired a thorough
knowledge of its nature)
Exhibit 5: He was born in 1452 in the little
city Vinci between Florence and Empoli. An
illegitimate child. His true father was Ser
Piero Da Vinci, a notary descendant of
notavies of farmers and his moher is
Caterina, a peasant girl.
Exhibit 6: The Vulture opened the mouth of
a child and forcefully belabored it with its
tail corresponds to the idea of fellatio (a
sexual act wherein the member is placed Subliminal Suggestions and Escape to Music
into the mouth of the other person.)
Exhibit 7: When we were in sudding age
(“where I was still in the cradle”) and took
the nipple of our mother’s or wet nurse’s
breast into our mouth and suck it
Exhibit 8: In the sacred hieroglyphics of old
Egyptian, the mother is represented by a
vulture.
The Vulture Fantasy of Leonardo can be
conceived in the following manner:
- Vulture are all female and that they
know to procreate without the
cooperation of male.
- He was a vulture child which had a
mother but no father.
- Echo of pleasure which he
experienced at his mother’s breast
was added in this manner that is
why this old memory manifested.
Exhibit 9: A testimonial of Leonardo’s sexual
investigation “At that time when I directed
my tender curiosity to my mother, I still
adjudged to her a genital like my mom.