Painted side of a building in Los Gatos, California (photo 1990 © John Pugh)
There is something intrinsically satisfying about optical illusions – static pictures that appear to move, change color, or fool us into seeing things that “aren’t really there.”
Optical Illusions, a new book by Paul M. Baars, covers illusions of depth, inversions, vibration effects, ambiguous figures, camouflage, anamorphic art, tessellations, and other visual brain teasers. (Yahoo News)
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- Can you find the lion? Rusty Rust, Hidden Lion. Undated. © Reprinted with permission of the artist.
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- A 1590 painting by then Italian Giuseppe Arcimboldo, “The Vegetable Gardener.” The left side is rightside-up, and the left is upside-down. Photo by © Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY. Museo Civico, Cremona, Italy.
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- A classic, simple illusion rendered by Studio PBD in 2012. “Impossible Fork.” © Studio PBD
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- Liu Bolin with body paint and clothing to match his surroundings in the Teatro alla Scala in 2010 (© Liu Bolin; courtesy of Eli Klein Fine Art, New York)
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- “Glee Turns Glum” drawn by Roger N. Shepard. (© R. N. Shepard. Published in Shepard, R.N. Mind Sights: Original Visual Illusions, Ambiguities, and Other Anomalies. (1990). New York: WH Freeman and Company.)
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- Optical Illusions, a new book by Paul M. Baars.
