Image of "Sky and Water I" by M.C. Escher from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_and_Water_I.
Gestalt is a configuration of lines and shapes to form an overall image that has various parts that can be looked at and interpreted different ways. There are several different properties to Gestalt, such as emergence, reification, multistability, and invariance. Multistability is the one that is frequently referred to in images such as the wine glass with the two heads, and the lady and old woman. However multistabilty is only one aspect of Gestalt. The other elements are also very important to this concept, and learning how Gestalt makes the eye move in such ways that the mind implies and creates the images.
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This is a work of art by Escher. It goes along with the Gestalt movement, but is not his.
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