Arts Visual Perception Lecture 1

UnderstandingVisual

Perception

Art Visual Perception * Lecture 1Philippine Women’s College of Davao

Wilfred Dexter G. Tañedo

Resource Materials• Reference Materials\Arnheim_Rudolf_Art_and_Visual_Perception_1974.pdf• Reference Materials\Elements and Principles of Art Activity Book.pdf• Reference Materials\Visual Perception melcher_cavanagh_ch19_2010.pdf

Visual by Definitionadjective1.of or relating to seeing or sight."visual perception"synonyms: optical, optic, ocular, eye;

noun1.a picture, piece of film, or display used to illustrate or accompany something.synonyms: graphic, visual aid, image, illustration, diagram, display;

Perception by Definition

the way that one thinks about or understand someone or something

the ability to understand or notice something easily

the way that one notices or understand something using one of the senses

PerceptionPerception is an active process of locating and

extracting information from the environment aided by visible light.

There are various physiological components involved in Visual Perception are referred to collectively as the Visual System.

Visual System is focus of much research in Vision Science that blends psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and molecular biology, in the study of visual perception.

Main Tools in Visual Perception

Main Tools in Visual Perception

Neural Basis of Vision• Behavior • Physiology • Anatomy • Computation

What Do You See in the Picture?

What Do You See in the Picture?

Gestalt Psychology• Tries to understand the laws of our ability to acquire and

maintain meaningful perceptions in an apparently chaotic world.

• The central principle of gestalt psychology is that the mind forms a global whole with self-organizing tendencies.

• This principle maintains that when the human mind (perceptual system) forms a percept or gestalt, the whole has a reality of its own, independent of the parts.

• "The whole is other than the sum of the parts” by Kurt Koffka

• The Founders of Gestalt Psychology: Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. Created sometime in 1912.

Visual Perceptual Skills

• Visual Perceptual Skills involve the ability to organize and interpret the information that is seen and give it meaning.

Visual Perceptual Processing Categories

Visual Discrimination Visual Figure groundVisual Closure Visual MemoryVisual Sequential MemoryVisual Form ConstancyVisual spatial relationships


Visual Discrimination is the ability to be aware of the distinctive features of forms including shape, orientation, size, and color.


• Visual Figure ground is the ability to distinguish an object from irrelevant background information


• Visual Closure is the ability to recognize a complete feature from fragmented information.


Visual memory is the ability to retain information over an adequate period of time.


Visual sequential memory is the ability to perceive and remember a sequence of objects, letters, words, and other symbols in the same order as originally seen.


Visual form constancy is the ability to recognize objects as they change size, shape, or orientation.


Visual spatial skills refer to the ability to understand directional concepts that organize external visual space.

Gestalt Principles

Assignment• Create 3x3 inches drawing samples of Gestalt

Principles (sketchbook) • What is the Importance of Visual Perception in

Visual Art, specifically Design? (notebook)

Education

Arts Visual Perception Lecture 1