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Friday, June 17, 2011

Look again

Masters of deception



In college, I became familiar with Escher's paintings and a friend of mine does ambigrams. I took this book more to refresh my memory of Escher and Dali's paintings, I am surprised to find the work of many contemporary artists. The choice of materials for some of the paintings - sugar on black paper, syrup, thread is new to me.

In some pages, its easy to miss the illusion but nothing a second visit cant take care of.

PS: Oliver Peyton's 'Eating Art' is about food made from Giuseppe Arcimboldo's 'Water' painting.

My favourites is synthesis in 'Nomad' by Sandro Del Prete.

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