Image Essay #5

The piece above is good example of Gestalt. The image has symmetry and balance and is a couple of different things combined. There are what looks like splats of either ink or black paint. But one can also see the shapes of what looks like two dancing women and two ballerinas. So it seems a dance related theme. Another way this a good example of gestalt is that the women and the ballerinas look like they are fused together, which makes the image an unified whole. But if one looks at it more closely, it appears that the ballerinas overlap the dancing women.The two dancing women also seem to be overlapping. The way there are overlapped kind of makes it looks their fingers are laced.

Besides the dancer there are other shapes one can see in this piece. The dancers seem to be in somewhat of a heart shape. Also the negative space between shapes like a butterfly. It is similar to the those illusion pieces that is both a vase and face. Out of all the principals of Gestalt, this piece seems to mostly follow proximity. The image also seems to make use of the curvilinear shape, since the image looks like it also forms a curve shape.