Today’s illusion is an older one. And although you may have seen it floating around the Internet before, it still deserves another look. We have not featured any natural optical illusions in a while and wanted to make sure one got posted this month. Do you see the dancer in the tree?
Victor Vasarely is the father of Op Art and recognized as one of the 20th centuries most important artists. His use of color, geometry and optical illusion in his art yielded fantastic results and influenced scores of younger artists. As such, his paintings are in the permanent collections of museums around the globe and admired […]
Stare at the black dot in the center of this image and watch the red stripes spin. At first, they should appear to be moving in a clockwise direction. After a short while, however, they will suddenly appear to reverse and start moving counter-clockwise. If you lie on the ground and look directly up at […]
Kurt Wenner used to work at NASA. Now he is one of the most recognized 3D street artists in the world. His anamorphic painting below features Spiderman flying high above the streets and slinging webs that you can actually walk across. Or at least you can make it appear that you are doing so if […]
Japanese artist Makoto Nakamura creates tessellation patterns. After majoring in graphic design at Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan, he became increasingly interested in tessellation design thanks to M.C. Escher. His tiled pattern below, titled Marathon 1, shows a series of runners jogging left and the right with no gaps or overlaps.
Artisan David Macdonald created the following photo montage using pictures taken of the courtyard of his loft in Brussels, Belgium. The entire scene is a little uneasy because it is hard to get a proper sense of direction. The windows do not seem to line up properly. Are you looking up at this scene or […]
You have no doubt seen cars and buses with advertising painted on them before. But this advertisement for a local zoo on the side of a public transit bus goes above and beyond. It is really well done and almost looks like something out of a bad horror movie. Despite the fact that the anaconda […]
