Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion

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Rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page. Butterflies that turn into right before your eyes into two warriors with their horses. A mosaic portrait of oceanographer Jacques Cousteau made from seashells. These dazzling and continuously playful artistic creations manipulate perspective so cleverly that they simply outwit our brains: we will be able to’t just take a quick glance and turn away. They compel us to look once, twice, and time and again, as we try to determine exactly how the delightful trickery manages to fool our perceptions so completely. Of course, first and foremost, each and every piece is beautiful on the surface, but every one offers us so a lot more. From Escher’s famous and elaborate “Waterfall” to Shigeo Fukuda’s “Mary Poppins,” where a heap of bottles, glasses, shakers, and openers someway grow to be the image of a Belle Epoque woman when the spotlight hits them, these works of genius will provide endless enjoyment.

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