What is Form ?
Etienne-Louis Boullée | Cenotaph for Newton Difference between definitions in English and German : Principles of Gestalt English : Ambiguous meaning, it can mean shape and idea or essence. German : (Gestalt : an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.) censorial perception, the form as the idea of something. * Read more abut the principles of Gestalt patterns here http://www.fusioncharts.com/blog/2014/03/how-to-use-the-gestalt-principles-for-visual-storytelling-podv/ Aristotle on Form : he central image from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509-1511), depicting Plato (left) and Aristotle (right). Plato is depicted pointing upwards, in reference to his belief in the higher Forms, while Aristotle disagrees and points downwards to the here-and-now, in reference to his belief in empiricism. *In a platonic conception of form by Aristotle, form is an ideal known to the mind through intelligence, not senses. It is linked to material...