Step back, and the image, deprived of its scrutinisable details, curdles grimly into an all-encompassing skull, grinning gothically from the shadows. Stand close to the black-and-white drawing and it appears to be little more than a depiction of a familiar domestic interior scene: a woman sitting at her dressing table (or “vanity”) staring at her reflection in the mirror opposite. Believed to be the first artist since antiquity to employ such an illusion as a dimension of interior design, Mantegna breathed new religious life into a pagan trick. Mantegna saw the flat surface of a canvas or ceiling as an opportunity to take an observer’s eye and soul on a spiritual journey inwards, upwards, and outwards. The evaporative effect is the handiwork of Italian artist Andrea Mantegna – a genius of dramatic foreshortened perspective and depicting figures illusionistically di sotto in sù (or “below upwards”). Impossibly, the barrier of the ceiling appears to have dissolved, revealing an invisible architecture that telescopes towards heaven, thrusting your soul in the direction of the divine. Suddenly, a shaft of unalterably beautiful blue sky beckons through a round aperture (or oculus) rimmed with angelic figures. To stand in the centre of the medieval bridal chamber of the Ducal Palace in Mantua and look up is to see the enclosed space magically widen above you. The result is a work that is at once amusing and profound – one that reminds the observer not only of the perishability of life but how our physical existence is comprised, materially, of the fragile world around us. Painted by the 16th Century Milanese Mannerist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who would later inspire the imaginations of 20th Century Surrealist painters, Reversible Head With Basket of Fruit tricks the eye into the restless exercise of constructing and destroying one image in favour of the other. The fibrous lashes of his chestnut eye wink at you playfully to punctuate the visual joke.
Flip the oil-on-panel work on its head, as if shaking loose the fruit that fills the wicker basket, and suddenly the plumped-up portrait of a stranger assembles itself from the bright jumble of assorted sweetness. artpeople_gallery, Submit your Artwork and join our artists BE FEATURED.Tilt the painting one way and it is a vibrant heap of autumnal bounty, as apples, pears, grapes, and figs puzzle for position in an alluring, if seemingly conventional, still life. Therefore, I chose the most popular. More of my optical illusions can be seen in my Shutterstock portfolio and my Facebook page, Instagram, Twitter. It was very difficult to choose a few pieces from three hundred. Some people tell me that they only see movement if they are wearing glasses.įor a long time I could not decide which artworks to show you. I am more inclined to believe that the movement in the pictures depends on the quality of the peripheral vision. According to some psychologists, this depends on the mental state of the viewer, on the level of his tiredness or stress. People say that not everyone can see the movement in these pictures. I created about three hundred new optical illusions and found a practical use for it in covers design, in packages design and seamless textures.
I wanted to expand this style and find a use for it. I saw tremendous potential in his drawing technique.
Once I saw the optical illusions of Akioshi Kitaoka and was very impressed with this. I draw vector illustrations and make graphic design.
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