THE PLANE AND THE TEXTURE
It is a 2-dimentional surface, with height and width but not depth.
What is a plane?
This Gestalt law states that our brain tries to identify a figure of a foreground object on or in front of a background any time we look at an image.
What is the Figure-Ground law?
Images whose purpose is to convey beauty.
What are aesthetic images?
He is a Brazilian art photographer who takes pictures of portraitrs or other images drawn or made by himself with unusual materials like food.
Who is Vik Muniz?
This artistic technique involves creating images by assembling small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.
What is mosiac?
These shapes follow natural principles and can take countless appearances
What are flat organic shapes?
This perception law refers to the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis (like a mirror image).
What is symmetry?
Images whose purpose is to give us directions on what to do.
What are indicative images?
He was a renacentrist artist who made portraits composing the images with many kinds of vegetables.
This artist is a pioneer in the technique of photo-mosaic (composing images with tiny pictures that are often related to a main theme)
Who is Robert Silvers?
These shapes follow mathematical principles.
What are flat geometric shapes?
This painting technique started by abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollack creates an appearance of uniformity by pouring paint over a canvas to let it flow freely.
What is dripping?
A figurative drawing or picture, usually a silhouette, representing a word, sound or idea.
What is a pictogram?
He is an Israeli illustrator who mixes illustration with objects to represent famous real or imaginary characters.
Who is Hanoch Piven?
This group of impressionist painters composed images with tiny, pure-colored brushstrokes that optically get mixed when the artwork is viewed from a distance.
What are pointilists?
Textures that can be percieved through sense of touch.
What are tactile textures?
This is the process by which a person or a group of people acquires information from the outside.
What is perception?
An image whose purpose is to convince or encourage us to do something.
What is hortatory/exhortative?
This contemporary American artist works with video. He projects gesture faces on puppets expressing different situations
Who is Tony Oursler?
This design uses many long bands or lines.
What are stripes?
Textures that can only be percieved though sight.
What are visual textures?
This German word, meaning ´shape´, or ´form´, refers to a group of psychologists that studied visual perception.
What is Gestalt?
Images whose purpose is to transmit information.
What are informative images?
He is one of the most popular Spanish photographers, whose work is considered visual poetry.
Who is Chema Madoz?
This kind of line is formed by several fragments of curved lines.
What are wavy lines?