Composite
16 May 2016 0 Comments
Brazlian artist Vik Muniz is no stranger to transforming trash and other discard items into beautiful works of art. We previously featured a video in which Muniz used hand-torn scraps of paper from magazines to recreate Van Gogh’s The Starry Night. In 2012, Muniz created a series of composite artworks under a series titled Scrap […]
Ambiguous
10 March 2016 0 Comments
This painting from Mexican artist Octavio Ocampo effectively uses negative space to create two distinct images that occupy the same space. Do you see a tree and several birds or do you see the face of a woman? You cannot view them both at the same time, but you can very easily flip-flop between the […]
Upside Down
11 September 2014 0 Comments
International advertising agency Leo Burnett created a series of three topsy-turvy optical illusion images for an ad campaign for Jeep. Each of the designs features an image of an animal with the tag line “See whatever you want to see.” printed beneath the Jeep logo. When the designs are turned upside down, the animal transforms […]
Composite
23 January 2014 0 Comments
Artist Julie Heller created this digital collage measuring 28″ by 36″ in 2008. When you look at it up close, it appears to be a random collection of unrelated images placed haphazardly together. Viewing the image from a distance, or squinting your eyes a bit, reveals that the individual images (a giraffe, hand, church, and […]
Hidden Objects
11 July 2013 1 Comment
Igor Morski is an illustrator and artist from Poland. I only became aware of him a few days ago when I came across some of his deceptive illustrations. The tropical scene below shows a bird perched on the branch of a tree near the water, presumably the ocean. The odd looking foliage on the tree […]