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7 pages in length. Applying Max Wertheimer's Productive Thinking to Gerrit Rietveld's Red & Blue Chair provides one with a significantly better understanding of how pivotal changes take place in once-standard applications. Rietveld's chair, which marks the transition between the organic, curving Art Noveau Style and the crisp, chic Art Deco, was composed via the artist's role as thinker that ultimately established a thought process enabling him to move from s1 to s2. This conspicuous move away from conventional perception confirmed Rietveld as one of history's most innovative artistic engineers. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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once-standard applications. Rietvelds chair, which marks "the transition between the organic, curving Art Noveau Style and the crisp, chic Art Deco" (Labuttis, 2002), was composed via the artists role
as thinker that ultimately established a thought process enabling him to move from s1 to s2. This conspicuous and deliberate move away from conventional perception confirmed Rietveld as one
of historys most innovative artistic engineers. "The Red & Blue chair is composed out of a dramatic interplay of straight lines to form patterns. The lines produce form
by enclosing space, the structure has very simple components and the striking colors are a reminder of paintings by the artist Mondrian. Although there is no upholstery, the chair
is amazingly comfortable" (Labuttis, 2002). Human perception is based upon much more than merely the obvious; rather, what one perceives is often
rooted in what ones mind expects to perceive of that particular entity. Wertheimers Gestalt theory, "a broadly interdisciplinary general theory which provides a framework for a wide variety of
psychological phenomena, processes, and applications" (Anonymous, 2002), helps provide answers as to the reasons why Rietveld perceived of things far beyond their physical limitations. The law of pragnanz, which
asserts that man is "innately driven to experience things in as good a gestalt as possible" (Boeree, 2002), addresses this extenuating perception by employing several other laws to complete its
interpretation. "During all those years there was a feeling of direction, of going straight toward something concrete. It is, of course, very hard to express that feeling in
words, but it was decidedly the case, and clearly to be distinguished from later considerations about the rational form of the solution" (Wertheimer, 1982, pp. 183-184). In order to understand
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