Erik Johansson has a vivid imagination. He also happens to be a very good photographer and a wizard at Adobe Photoshop. He creates photo-manipulations by taking multiple photographs and crafting them into creative and impossible scenes. His work below, created in 2010, shows a very strange intersection that almost has an uneasy feeling when looking at it. It is hard to tell if you are looking down or up at the cars in this scene.
Italian sculptor Guido Moretti created the following sculpture titled ‘Impossible Ring to Pillars’. When viewed from one direction, it looks like an impossible ring (or circle) and when viewed from another it looks like impossible pillars. If you stand in between these two viewing angles, it looks like a tangled mass of metal. By rotating the sculpture on a pole, this effect can be witnessed without having to view it in person or rely on a series of pictures to get the concept across.
“I like to think of my latest sculptures as strange objects wandering through space, rotating around themselves in a dimension in which the concepts of “up” and “down”, “in” and “out” are totally meaningless.” – Guido Moretti
Last month, Special Head’s levitation trick on America’s Got Talent created quite a buzz. Special Head was certainly not the first person to perform such a trick and he surely won’t be the last. Performance artist Johan Lorbeer did a slight variation of this stunt by casually leaning against the wall of a building while hovering over a large crowd of people. Can you figure out how he did it?
“I can fool you because you’re a human,” said Jerry Andrus. “You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we’re fooled, the mind hasn’t made a mistake. It’s come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.”
During his illustrious life, Jerry Andrus was many things. He was a magician. He was a visionary illusionist. He was a skeptic. He was an inspiration to those around him. He created many wonderful optical illusions during his lifetime. His “Box Impossible” featured below shows Jerry himself standing inside an impossibly-constructed crate. The vertical support board in the upper right corner of the box attaches to the top and bottom yet somehow passes in front of the upper horizontal cross beam. Do you know how he built this?
You will notice that a grey stripe is moving somewhat randomly up and down in the orange section of the animation below. If you stare at the black dot in the lower right corner, you will notice that the grey stripe in your peripheral vision will turn blue. The effect of this illusion is very similar to the Lilac Chaser Illusion where pink dots appear to turn green when staring at a specific spot on the image.
Swiss artist Sandro Del-Prete is a master at painting beautifully-impossible scenes. As a young man, he attended the Florence Academy of Art. While in Florence, he began to discover and appreciate the works of Old Masters such as da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt. Today, his works have been featured in exhibitions in Switzerland, Japan, and other countries around the world. In 2008, a book titled The Master of Illusions (Sterling Publishing) was released by Del-Prete showcasing his vast and impressive artwork.
In one of his more famous creations below, titled The Warped Chessboard, perspective is severely challenge. Some of the pieces are looking down and some are looking up even though they appear to be on the same flat surface. The chess board appears to be warped in some way, but all of the lines are straight and parallel. This painting alone has inspired many other artists to explore a similar type of deception. A good example of this would be The Terrace by David Macdonald.
Rusty Rust frequently creates deceptive paintings that have a hidden element to them. Here, he paints a young boy on a horse on what we can assume is a boring day on the farm. As his mind wanders, he slowly begins to daydream. As he does, an opening in the dilapidated barn begins to resemble something far more exciting than his daily chores.
More of Rusty’s paintings can be viewed by visiting his personal website at Rusty Art.
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