Gestalt criticism

Gestalt theory is not without criticism. In fact, this kind of criticism came into being when Gestalt Psychology came out. To sum up, these criticisms involve the following aspects: a photographic work is static, but we can feel the internal tense movement between various parts, such as the power of a tree growing up and down on the grassland and the power of storming the sea. In artistic creation, a super wide-angle lens is sometimes used to highlight the tension with certain deformation. For another example, the real scene of a horse galloping with four hooves was shot by Michael Britz in the United States 1872, but the painter's traditional painting method did not follow the actual situation, but painted all the hooves of the horse outward to highlight the tension. Gestalt requires that the most pregnant moment should be solidified when expressing tension, which is the method adopted by many successful sports photography. For example, the gymnast photographed by Zhao is a typical usage when the body is in a horizontal state.

Generally speaking, an object with gestalt characteristics is a life form, because it conforms to the laws of human perception and is artistic.

Theoretically speaking, the task of picture editing is to design a plane organization with a fixed area into a life form-a gestalt, under the condition of meeting the requirements of the overall style and layout content of the media, so as to maximize the communication efficiency of single pictures and combined pictures. Picture editing, in print media and online media, the task is the same, but the technical indicators are different. I believe that with the development of electronic network technology, the picture format in the network can also be made into gestalt and become works of art. In artistic creation, the creation of gestalt has great freedom. It is much more difficult to design the picture layout as a gestalt. The basic limitation is that the four boundaries of the layout are impenetrable; Secondly, the overall style and layout of the media are limited, and there is not much room for control; There is also a requirement of timeliness, and you can't sit down and play your creativity calmly. So it is not easy to be an excellent photo editor. In all kinds of media, except professional photographers, others generally lack understanding of picture editing.

From the process of picture editing, we can see the role of picture editing. Under the big definition that photography is recording, there are different sides. If you look at photos from different sides, you will edit them into different styles. It can be said that the way we look at pictures determines the way we edit them.

If the photographic picture is regarded as a consumer product and the past reality is turned into a paper image imprint, then what it expects is cutting and arranging. The external world that can't be moved has moved, and the photos that can't be cut have been cut. A photo group is a collection of objects. Different sizes give consumers different feelings and understandings.

If a picture is regarded as a frame-the frame of an event (decisive moment), then it is expected to be unbound from the events it records. With the passage of time, its meaning is no longer tied to the recorded object, but drifts and dissolves into a larger historical background, which is interpreted by anyone and given a theme by everyone.

If a photo is regarded as a quotation, and a set of photos is a set of quotations, then it expects readers' association.

If photos are regarded as a slice of the current world, a group of photos are planned slices of the real world, and a bunch of photos are unplanned slices of the world, then what it expects is to analyze, collect and organize them into files.

If a photo is regarded as a proof of an event, a proof of being present or a true proof, then it is expected to be verified by readers.

These concepts are common when the media use pictures. No matter which angle you look at photos, it is a kind of editing idea, which has an invisible influence on readers. Theoretically, any editorial idea can be designed as a gestalt. What is needed is the efforts of editors. We look forward to the emergence of a group of photo editors with independent thinking and creativity to edit colorful image gestalt for us.