Group 10 *Camouflage-deliberate alteration

of figure-ground so that the figure

Art and Psychology: blends into the ground.
Perception and Symbolism
Art ‘the expression or application SIMILARITY Perception of Space:
of human creative skill and “Elements that Perspective
imagination, typically in a visual share similar
characteristics are Space - In terms of art, space is
form such as painting or sculpture,
perceived as more related than the area around, above, and
producing works to be appreciated
elements that don't share those within an object. As one of the
primarily for their beauty or
characteristics.” classic seven elements of art,
emotional power.’
refers to distances or areas
Psychology ‘the science of mind PROXIMITY around, between, and within
and behavior’ “Objects that are components of a piece.
Application of the Principles of closer together are Positive space refers to the
Gestalt in Visual Art perceived as more related than subject of the piece itself
objects that are
further apart.” Negative space is the empty
GOOD
spaces the artist has created
FIGURE, LAW
CLOSURE “When around, between, and within the
OF
seeing a complex arrangement of subjects.
SIMPLICITY
“People will perceive and interpret elements, we tend to look for a
ambiguous or complex images as single, recognizable pattern.”
the simplest form(s) possible.”
CONTINUATION
“The whole is other than the sum “Elements arranged
of the parts.” — Kurt Koffka on a line or curve
are perceived as more related
PRINCIPLES: than elements not on the line or
curve.”

Space
SYMMETRY AND ORDER perception, process through
FIGURE/GROUND “Elements “People tend to perceive objects which humans and other
are perceived as either figure (the as symmetrical shapes that form organisms become aware of the
element in focus) or ground (the around their center.” relative positions of their own
background on which the figure bodies and objects around them.
rests).” Space perception provides cues,
such as depth and distance, that
are important for movement and
orientation to the environment.
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 In the passage where he speaks
looking at a scene from much about the Flight of the Vulture, he
lower than you would standing up. 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
Symbolism meaning: vulture came down to me, he
Psychoanalysis of Artwork and opened my mouth with his tail and
the Artist struck me a few times with his tail
against my lips.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
Exhibit 1: He lived as an
apprentice in the house of his
master Verrochio. He with other
The Mona Lisa 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.
The Virgin and Child with St. Anne
Exhibit 3: His last pupil
Francisco Melzi,
accompanied him to
France, remained with
The Vulture him until his death and was
Fantasy 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 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.
Subliminal Suggestions and
Escape to Music