Essays on Optical Illusion

The Holy Forest is a collection of abstract paintings created by the American artist Stephen Westfall inspired by Robin Blaser’s book Holy Forest. The artist’s adherence to minimalism is what makes the painting truly remarkable and its vivid colors make it noticeable even from a far distance. Westfall was born in 1953 in New York; as a beginning artist, he studied the works of Modernist masters specializing in abstract design. In addition, Westfall also served as an assistant at Rutgers School of Visual Arts. Throughout his career as a painter, he cites the influence of Henri Matisse ...

I had the pleasure of interpreting artist Paul Ramirez Jonas’ artwork entitled Admit One: The Great Hall at Cooper Union. The artist is American Born 1965 in California and currently living in New York. The artwork was completed in 2011; Sheet: 44 1/8 x 77 inches; two dimensional. The materials used in the piece conclude of Ink, coloured pencil, and graphite paper. The frame of the artwork is white, as is the wall behind it. The artwork located at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, includes a seemingly architectural drawing of a grand hall seating formation and a stage, in direct ...

Simply stated, an optical illusion is something that fools an individual’s mind and eyes into perceiving reality falsely. Optical illusions can be found everywhere in photographs, drawings, unusual solid objects, holograms, as well as natural phenomena such as mirage. I have had an experience with a number of optical illusions which include mirages, holograms and a drawing known as the Hermann Grid Illusion.

When taking a walk along the road on a very hot sunny day, one will tend to see a puddle of water at a distance. However, this is not water to quench thirst but rather an optical illusion known as mirage. ...

Artist of OP Art

Artist of OP Art

Introduction

Op art refers to the artwork that involves the paintings and sculptures based upon illusion. It is described as an “Optical Art” that revolves around movements and directly attacks an eye. It uses optics and by having an immense use of disorientating and optical effects, the paintings are finalized by using brilliant colors, geometrical shapes, and different patterns. OP art is mainly an abstract art in which forms, lines, and space play a major role of bringing out a painting of ambiguous nature. In other and simple words, an op art is an illusion of movement meaning ...

Build in the honor of the Goddess Athens on the top of the Athenian Acropolis between 447-438 BC, the Parthenon is a majestic temple, which reflects the Greek artistic power and architectural ingenuity (Jenkins 76). This construction was built under the reign of Pericles for celebrating the end of the war between Athens and Persia, but its historical significance comprises many more scenes that left the scars of various dominations through time, such as the bombardment during the Ottoman domination, when, in 1687, the Venetian troops fired the Parthenon, which served the Ottomans as the fortress and the place where ...

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 give the ...