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Fantastic Optical Illusion Artworks by Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves is an artist from Toronto, Canada. What I really love in his work is the surrealism inspiration and how he mixes elements to create amazing transitions from bridges to clouds to caravels. Even though his work is categorized as surrealistic, Rob's work is deliberately planned and results from a conscious thought, the exact opposite of surrealism.
Artist Rob Gonsalves was born in Toronto, Canada in 1959. During his childhood, he developed an interest in drawing from imagination using various media. By age twelve, his awareness of architecture grew as he leaned perspective techniques and began to do his first paintings and renderings of imagined buildings.
After an introduction to Artists Dali and Tanguy, Gonsalves began his first surrealist paintings. The "Magic Realism" approach of Magritte along with the precise perspective illusions of Escher came to be influences in his future work.
Although Gonsalves' work is often categorized as surrealistic, it differs due to the fact that the images are deliberately planned and result from conscious thought. Ideas are largely generated by the external world and involve recognizable human activities, using carefully planned illusionist devices. Gonsalves injects a sense of magic into realistic scenes. As a result, the term "Magic Realism" describes his work accurately. His work is an attempt to represent human beings desire to believe is the impossible.
For more information visit Rob Goncalves' website
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32 Comments
wo! amazing! very clever artwork!
Stunning and I haven't even had my coffee yet. Thanks for posting.
each picture is stunning! love his artwork
great stuff. really nice illusions.
Love it. Would love to see a real life version of a lot of these!
Lots of strange loops here. Hofstadter, eat your heart out! I love the subtler ones like the swing. The moon and the flashlight really made me laugh!
amazing!!!
^^
great!!!!!!
As someone who loves Escher, i like this too.
Stunning effect !
very peculiar
cool
Echer :P
very Escher like and you cant give a bigger compliment than that
great work.
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great stuff,but there is no Escher's work...Check the Concave and Convex...
Definitely inspired by MC Escher's artwork. Which I think is great. Good stuff...
I really like the one with the curtain. That one made me smile
Freaking awesome work !!
Love them
and i also like the image fades while image loads up. kinda watching a movie effect
very impressive
I love the treehouse one.
wow, the bedroom one of the girl "flying" and the puzzle one remind me so much of doing salvia... its almost like a direct representation of what its like. for me anyway. im so interested in buying those prints, but they cost too much. im poor. i cant even afford to make prints of my own work. lol
oh! I had forgotten of these! nice.
really cool
Yes, his work is stunning. Actually first came across his work at the New York Art Show at the Javitz Center where it was being shown and sold. Absolutely wonderful to look at. Especially large.
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
amazing!! Eu nunca conseguiria fazer algo parecido... muito perfeito.
Wow, I love this style.
It twists the laws of reality.
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Brilliant work!
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