THESE ARTISTS ARE PLAYING WITH OUR MINDS

Salvador Dali "The Persistence of Memory" 1931

This post is especially for the Chubby Chatterbox; Stephen Hayes (who does not play with our minds).  He's having a giveaway of one of his paintings.  For details go to thechubbychatterbox.blogspot.com.

  

Here's the painting:

I'm sure all of you have heard of Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte & M. C. Escher & their weird strange odd interesting concept of art but boredpanda.com has introduced me to some modern day artists who also see & render their world differently.  They work in many media; here are just a few of them:

The beautiful and mind-bending illusions in Canadian artist ROBERT GONSALVES’ paintings have a fun way of twisting your perception and causing you to question what in his paintings, if anything, is real. 

Most of his stunning paintings have an unclear boundary between the multiple stories they tell, which forces the viewer to jump back and forth between them – like an optical illusion that changes every time you look at it.

Gonsalves’ interest in art began at an early age, which is why he became comfortable with painting such complex misdirection. He had experience with technique and perspective and architectural art by the age of 12. When he encountered Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte, they clearly left a lasting impact on his amazing paintings as well.

MONICA CARVALHO loves creating surreal photo montages. She shot all the photographs used in the photo montages, except from a few space images she found on Google (planet Earth, stars). The people in her photo-manipulations are mostly her, but also friends and family. She is passionate about the impossible and achieving the perfect optical illusion. 

Here we have Spanish photographer CHEMA MADOZ and his surreal black and white photos. Born in 1958, and with several collections to his name, Madoz is famously coy about his pictures' aim, even when asked directly: "The fact is that I don’t give any thought to the reaction they’ll cause in the viewer. I look for images that move me and touch me, that make me feel that I’m doing something different which I wasn’t aware of. I want to be able to stand in front of my pictures and feel that I can communicate with them. If a picture says something to me, I feel confident that there may be other people who will experience the same thing."

Thai artist UTTAPORN NIMMALAIKAEW paints haunting 3D-images on fine netting. He discovered the technique by accident in 2001 when, while studying at Silapakorn University in Bangkok, he noticed a spot of paint on his mosquito netting. He soon realized that he could create the impression of depth and volume by combining multiple layers.

“One of the most outstanding features of my work is that it changes viewer’s experience.The work of art as illusion deceives perception. From the front, viewer will see the work in the middle of empty space. I draw human shapes on the sparse white cloth with oil color. The details are different due to volume, color, light and cloth layer. Thread is also applied in some works, while parts of huge, ready-made object are also found.”

Instead of cartoons today, here are some optical illusions that

flyingmouse365.com created for use on T shirts:

This is my favorite of his; "The Star Collector":

Have you ever noticed that not all people's reality is the same?----fishducky