The Gestalt principles can be described as visually perceptive qualities in a work of art. Using these principles, and especially combining them, we are able to make engaging and interesting pieces and compositions. I really enjoyed this project, especially when pushing one design to be visually stronger (you can see this in several of my process drawings).
Symmetry
In this principle, I mostly focused on berries for my design. Strawberries have an interesting design considering their seeds are on the outside. It also gave me the opportunity to create the illusion of a 3D form. Adding black to the background also created closure within the surrounding strawberries.
Closure
I wanted to experiment with the peeled orange and how the white skins that cling to the orange could be used to represent the orange as a whole. The third image was most directly representing that idea, but it gave too much context to strongly represent closure. Placing the orange at an angle made it much more engaging. I also like the idea of using dragon fruit, but because it needed more context to be fully understood, I decided to keep the orange as my final design.
Similarity
I immediately gravitated to using pomegranate for similarity. All of the little seeds are nearly identical, and there are so many of them. However, I tried other fruit concepts including the principle of an anomaly with the peach design and even a tomato which represented similarity trough the repetition of the slices.
Proximity
I used bananas in several of my trial designs because I wanted to accent the closeness of the banana bunch and the distance of the single separated banana. I tried the same thing with several fruits in the same image, but I decided to keep it to just one fruit to keep the theme consistent. I also experimented with the distance created by a bunch of grapes that have been mostly eaten, but later found that I wanted to use the graped for continuation.
Figure Ground
This principle came as more of a challenge when trying to make ideas for figure-ground reversal, however, I soon realized that the theme would stay consistent if I simply reversed the background are foreground. I also experimented with the pineapple design, but I was much more fond of the papaya and all of its egg-like seeds.
Continuation
As I mentioned in “Proximity”, I wanted to use grapes for continuation, particularly accenting the continuity through the line of the stem, but also through the cascading orientation of the grapes themselves. Again, I experimented with other fruit, but I already had a biased towards the concept of the grapes.
