Essays on Illusion

Summary of Chapters 1& 3

Chapter 1 deals with texture, defining it as a quality on the surface of a work of art that affects the senses of touch and vision. There are three types of texture in art: physical texture that refers to the actual texture of surface and materials, visual texture, which is illusionary and invented texture, which is also based on illusion by using seemingly irrelevant shapes to create a recognizable ensemble.
When creating texture an artist should take into account the texture of the material itself as well as that of the surface in which he/she applies it. The creation

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The St. Louis Arch is a large commemorative sculpture located on the west bank of the Mississippi. Its form is an inverted, weighed cantenary curve (Grigonis, 2011). A centenary curve is the shape that a chain forms if it is allowed to hang from the two ends by its own weight. In order to replicate the curve of the St. Louis Arch, the links in the middle chain must be of lighter weight than the links at the end of the chain, thus the curve is described as “weighted.” The designer, Eero Saarinen, chose this type of curve to

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBNHPk-Lnkk
This video exhibits a simple optical illusion, but an extremely impressive one. It tricks our mind at the moment when we are pretty sure of our cognitive capabilities. Our mind, being a highly sophisticated machine, records history and past experiences within the neural circuits of our visual system. This learning, embedded in our minds, helps us to interpret what we see. We usually interpret any three dimensional object based on the simplified prototypes or models that exists in our neural library. When images are carried from our eye to our brain, it undergoes a complex system of processing

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Literature :

The Perfect Poster
The poster is a pictorial and striking representation of the Susan Laurie-Parks ’ attempt to make the audience understand the novel message given by her in “The America Play”, wherein she uses the look alike of an iconic president to draw the interest of the audience. This poster too focusses on the foundling father’s image to catch the eye of the viewers. Just as the dramatist uses repetition as a tool to highlight how history can be interpreted and reinterpreted,the mirrors in the poster shows endlessly repetititive images. The audience love sensational aspects of the

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