This document discusses the Sensual and Perceptual Theories of visual communication. It covers the Gestalt theory of visual perception, which emerged from observations of how the brain organizes visual sensations. The Gestalt theory proposes that the whole is different than the sum of its parts, and that the brain organizes sensations according to principles of similarity, proximity, continuation, and common fate. The document also discusses how Gestalt principles can be used to understand figure/ground patterns and how visual elements are grouped in an image.
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IVC - Lesson 08
1. LESSON 8
Sensual & Perceptual Theory
TOPICS COVERED
The Sensual and Perceptual Theories of visual communication skills.
Gestalt and Visaul Organisation.
OBJECTIVES
By the end of this chapter you should know:
. The difference between visual sensation and visual perception.
. The various components and uses for gestalt
There can be no words without images.
Aristotle
Psychologists, philosophers, and practitioners have devised several approaches that help explain
the way we see and process images. Knowing the four visual attributes the brain responds to-
color, form, depth, and movement-is only part of the story for the visual communicator. The four
theories we discuss in this chapter can be divided into two fundamental groups: sensual and
perceptual. Those who advocate the sensual theories (gestalt and constructivism) maintain that
direct or mediated images are composed of light objects that attract or repel us. The perceptual
theories (semiotics and cognitive) are concerned mainly with the meaning that humans associate
with the images they see.
To understand any of these approaches to visual communication, you must first know the
difference between visual sensation and visual perception. A visual sensation simply is a
stimulus from the outside world that activates nerve cells within your sense organs. Wood
burning in a fireplace activates the cells in your ears because you can hear the logs cracking and
hissing; in your nose because you can smell the rich aroma of the wood; in your hands and face
because you can feel the warmth of the fire; and in your eyes as you watch the hypnotizing glow
of the yellow flames. Sensations are lower order, physical responses to stimuli and alone convey
no meaning. Nerve cells in your ears, nose, hands, and eyes do not" have the capacity to make
intelligent thoughts. They are simply conveyors of information to the brain.
When stimuli reach the brain, it can make sense of all the sensual input. Conclusions based on
those data are almost instantaneous. Your brain interprets the noises, smells, temperatures, and
2. sights as a fire in a fireplace. Visual perception is the conclusion that is made by combining all of
the information gathered by your sensual organs. Sensations are the raw data. Visual perception
is the meaning concluded after visual sensual stimuli are received.
SENSUAL THEORIES OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Gestalt
The gestalt theory of visual perception emerged from a simple observation. German psychologist
Max Wertheimer received his inspiration during a train trip in the summer of 1910. Wertheimer
happened to look out the window as the train moved through the sunny German countryside. He
suddenly realized that he could see the outside scene even though the opaque wall of the train
and the window frame partially blocked his view. He left the train in Frankfurt, went to a toy
store, and bought a popular children's toy of the day-a stroboscope or flipbook. The flipbook is a
simple form of cartoon animation. On the first page of the book, a drawing, say, of a cartoon
character in a running position is displayed on the left-hand side of the page. On each subsequent
page, the drawing of the figure is to the right of the previous drawing until the last page shows
the character at the right-hand side of the page. To see the effect of the character running from
the left to the right side, the viewer simply flips the pages rapidly. Wertheimer's observations
during the train trip and using the flipbook led to a famous laboratory experiment at the Univer-
sity of Frankfurt.
Wertheimer concluded that the eye merely takes in all the visual stimuli and that the brain
arranges the sensations into a coherent image. Without a brain that links individual sensual
elements, the phenomenon of movement would not take place. His ideas led to the famous
statement:
The whole is different from the sum of its parts.
In other words, perception is a result of a combination of sensations and not of individual sensual
elements.
The word gestalt comes from the German noun that means form or shape. Gestalt psychologists
further refined the initial work by Wertheimer to conclude that visual perception was a result of
organizing sensual elements or forms into various groups. Discrete elements within a scene are
combined and understood by the brain through a series of four fundamental principles of
grouping that are often called laws: similarity, proximity, continuation, and common fate.
Similarity states that, given a choice by the brain, you will select the simplest and most stable
form to concentrate on. This principle stresses the importance of basic shapes in the form of
squares, circles, and triangles.
3. Similarity. Six tourists who rest on a bench at Versailles outside Paris come from a similar
cultural group and are linked together in our minds. Because the woman to the right reads a book
and is from a different generation, she looks as if she does not belong, or is dissimilar.
Proximity states that the brain more closely associates objects close to each other than it does
two objects that are far apart. Two friends standing close and holding hands will be viewed as
being more closely related than a third person standing twenty yards from the couple .
Proximity. Three boys dressed in similar Mardi Gras costumes, but with dissimilar personalities, wait to be
photographed with the queen of a ball in New Orleans. One of the reasons the brain links the boys as a single unit is
because they are sitting so close together.
Continuation rests on the principle, again assumed by gestalt psychologists, that the brain does
not prefer sudden or unusual changes in the movement of a line. In other words, the brain seeks
as much as possible a smooth continuation of a line. The line can be a line in the traditional sense
of the word, as in a drawing, or several objects placed together that form a line. Objects viewed
as belonging to a continuous line will be mentally separated from other objects that are not a part
of that line. Continuation also refers to objects that are partially blocked by a foreground object.
4. Another principle of gestalt psychology is common fate. A viewer mentally groups five arrows
or five raised hands pointing to the sky because they all point in the same direction. An arrow or
a hand pointed in the opposite direction will create tension, because the viewer will not see it as
part of the upwardly directed whole.
One of the first uses of the gestalt principles was to explain the phenomenon of reversible figure
and ground spatial patterns in painting and photography, called negative and positive space. For
figure and ground patterns the crucial question was how do we know what is in the foreground
and what belongs in the background of an image? This question is related directly to the
important need of the brain to label objects as near or far in order to judge their relative
importance or danger.
In 1915, Edgar Rubin, a Danish gestalt psychologist, experimented with figure and ground
patterns by drawing an object that could be interpreted as either a face or vase. Sensually, both the face
and thevase images are stimulating photoreceptors in the retina. However, the brain cannot see
both images at once-you must make a conscious decision whether to see a face or a vase in the
drawing.
Rubin also outlined the principle of camouflage in which there is little or no separation between
the foreground and the background. Understanding and manipulating this trait of visual
perception led directly to military applications of merging the colors of uniforms and equipment
with those of surrounding backgrounds in order to hide them. This principle also influenced the
work of artists M. C. Escher and Paul Klee, both of whom were influenced by the writings and
findings of several gestalt psychologists.
Gestalt and Visual Communication
The strength of the gestalt theory of visual perception is its attention to the individual forms that
make up a picture's content. Any analysis of an image should start by concentrating on those
forms that naturally appear in any picture. Recall that color, form, depth, and movement all are
basic characteristics of an image that the brain notices. Gestalt teaches a visual communicator to
combine those basic elements into a meaningful whole. The approach also teaches the graphic
artist to focus attention on certain elements by playing against the gestalt principles. For
example, a company's logo (or trademark) will be noticed in an advertisement if it has a
dissimilar shape, size, or location in relation to the other elements in the layout.
The work of gestalt theorists clearly shows that the brain is a powerful organ that classifies visual
material in discrete groups. What we see when looking at a picture is modified by what we have
seen in the past and what we want to see
Gestalt Principles of Visual Organization
In discussing the 'selectivity' of perception I have alluded to foregrounding and backgrounding.
We owe the concept of 'figure' and 'ground' in perception to the Gestalt psychologists: notably
Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), Wolfgang Köhler (1887-1967) and Kurt Koffka (1886-1941).
Confronted by a visual image, we seem to need to separate a dominant shape (a 'figure' with a
definite contour) from what our current concerns relegate to 'background' (or 'ground'). An
illustration of this is the famous ambiguous figure devised by the Danish psychologist Edgar
Rubin.
5. Images such as this are ambiguous concerning figure and ground. Is the figure a white vase (or
goblet, or bird-bath) on a black background or silhouetted profiles on a white background?
Perceptual set operates in such cases and we tend to favour one interpretation over the other
(though altering the amount of black or white which is visible can create a bias towards one or
the other). When we have identified a figure, the contours seem to belong to it, and it appears to
be in front of the ground.
In addition to introducing the terms 'figure' and 'ground', the Gestalt psychologists outlined what
seemed to be several fundamental and universal principles (sometimes even called 'laws') of
perceptual organization. The main ones are as follows (some of the terms vary a little):
proximity, similarity, good continuation, closure, smallness, surroundedness, symmetry.
The principle of proximity can be demonstrated thus:
What you are likely to notice fairly quickly is that this is not just a square pattern of dots but
rather is a series of columns of dots. The principle of proximity is that features which are close
together are associated. Below is another example. Here we are likely to group the dots together
in rows.
The principle also applies in the illustration below. We are more likely to associate the lines
which are close together than those which are further apart. In this example we tend to see three
pairs of lines which are fairly close together (and a lonely line on the far right) rather than three
pairs of lines which are further apart (and a lonely line on the far left).
6. The significance of this principle on its own is likely to seem unclear initially; it is in their
interaction that the principles become more apparent. So we will turn to a second major principle
of perceptual organization - that of similarity. Look at the example below.
Here the little circles and squares are evenly spaced both horizontally and vertically so proximity
does not come into play. However, we do tend to see alternating columns of circles and squares.
This, the Gestalt psychologists would argue, is because of the principle of similarity - features
which look similar are associated. Without the two different recurrent features we would see
either rows or columns or both...
A third principle of perceptual organization is that of good continuity. This principle is that
contours based on smooth continuity are preferred to abrupt changes of direction. Here, for
instance, we are more likely to identify lines a-b and c-d crossing than to identify a-d and c-b or
a-c and d-b as lines.
Closure is a fourth principle of perceptual organization: interpretations which produce 'closed'
rather than 'open' figures are favoured.
Here we tend to see three broken rectangles (and a lonely shape on the far left) rather than three
'girder' profiles (and a lonely shape on the right). In this case the principle of closure cuts across
7. the principle of proximity, since if we remove the bracket shapes, we return to an image used
earlier to illustrate proximity...