Interior Design + Wall Art = Incredible Optical Illusions. Before you even bother guessing: no, the following photographs are not the product of advanced photo editing – in fact, many of them predate Photoshop by decades. They are simple spaces designed with a particular effect that can only be properly experienced from a single perfect point of view. Seen from the right angle these spectacular painted surfaces shot by photographer Felice Varini seem as if they must be overlays – but any shift in viewer stance immediately reveals their actual complexity.
Painted perfectly onto layered, detailed, raised and embossed surfaces the achievement of each new illusion of perspective is an incredible task absent modern interior design computer programs. While some of his works exist in outside built environments or interior public spaces, many of them are also located on the walls of simple domestic places – homes, condos, apartments and even parking lots. Optical illusion | Stock Vector © Sylwia Hampel #7148634. Optical illusion « patternsthatconnect. The next four days… (via Love, Art & Fear) Loosening up I saw this Blog the other day Hi The Art Gallery is over. I still feel compelled to paint. Over the next four days I will be sharing four new peices that have arisen since the show. Again, each will have somewhat of a synopsis but no real explaination. I have also put up a ‘Gallery’ in the Art section of this site. Via Love, Art & Fear and then I started wondering about how it works (the image that is, not the blog) Am I right in thinking that it relies on the closeness of the lines near where the ‘circles’ appear to throb (close but not converging),that the repeated motif is not quite symmetrical, andmost of all, on tonal contrast?
What would happen if you loosened the closeness of the lines, introduced colour and reduced the tonal contrast? Your own personal rainbow (via Michael’s Blog) How brilliant is this? This was published on Richard Wiseman’s blog today. Via Michael’s Blog Art of Optical Ilusion (via SHUFFLE) via SHUFFLE Oh! List of optical illusions | Ask.com Encyclopedia. The Parthenon : History, Reconstruction, Technology and Interesting Facts (1/2) Griechenland: Der Parthenon auf der Akropolis Part 1 The only way to judge of the treasures the Old Masters of whatever age have left us—whether in architecture, sculpture, or painting—with any hope of sound deduction, is to look at the work and ask oneself—"What was that like when it was new? " The Elgin Marbles are allowed by common consent to be the perfection of art. But how much of our feeling of reverence is inspired by time? Imagine the Parthenon as it must have looked with the frieze of the mighty Phidias fresh from the chisel.
Could one behold it in all its pristine beauty and splendour we should see a white marble building, blinding in the dazzling brightness of a southern sun, the figures of the exquisite frieze in all probability painted—there is more than a suspicion of that—and the whole standing out against the intense blue sky; and many of us, I venture to think, would cry at once, Millais. Parthenon, Akropolis Parthenon for the Parthena (“Virgin” or “Maiden”) Athena. 2.