Is this a picture of a mask looking at a skull it’s holding up for inspection, or vice versa? I got the idea from a print by Picasso, Young man with mask of a bull, faun and profile of a woman. There’s a copy in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, and […]
The world of illusion as you’ve never seen it before: Here’s the first of a series of half minute or so optical illusion animated cartoons… also available as a Quicktime Movie. This cartoon features a new version of the well-known rotating heads illusion. And here’s the second …. also available as a Quicktime Movie. This […]
Here’s another ambiguous severed head illusion. Is Koala thoughtfully holding up the severed head of Woven Person for inspection, or is it the other way round? You can see it both ways. For examples of this illusion in earlier posts, check out The Screams after Munch, the Monks, and the Mask/Skull illusion. (On that […]
On the right, with apologies to Eduard Munch, I’d like to propose an improvement to his famous picture The Scream. In my version, the screamer really does have something to scream about: he’s holding up a duplicate of his own head for inspection. But which head is the one that’s attached to the body, and […]
Here’s a historic artwork I reckon I’ve much improved. On the left you see it as has been for the last five hundred years or so, a Spanish (I think) wood carving, of a martyred saint, now in the Petit Palais museum in Paris. On the right I’ve turned it into an ambiguous image, […]
