Hyper-realistic Paintings by Antonio Santín

Spain-based artist Antonio Santín uses oil paintings to create these hyper-realistic paintings depict an object or a person hidden under highly ornamented tapestries.



"Painting is essentially a superficial activity, the artist’s psychology translates into a certain colored texture that will in turn eventually trigger or host the unique psychology of the beholder. Thus, according to this transitional synesthesia, any represented face is an enlivened mask. My background is sculpture, a discipline that could as well be defined as the development of structural strategies that end up supporting a surface. Not being its main raison d’être, the surface does conceal and contain the essence of the volume, whose physicality permeates its vessel while existing often only in the territory of the imagination. Therefore, whether it is a face, a dress or a rug, for me, it’s all about grasping what is hidden or concealed."



"I don’t really have the deepest knowledge of carpets, but it’s more like intuition. At one point, I saw some ripples in a carpet, and began to be interested in them. I thought there were too many figurative paintings in my production, and I was wondering if I got rid of the figure if I could still make something figurative without an obvious reference. Every carpet is a new world, a different approach. The form itself is very sculptural, and to find the perfect volume for the carpet is endless."



"I like playing with this sublime and sinister combo. What’s inside, what’s underneath? I believe there are many layers of entertainment. It’s high-class entertainment."



"There’s no conscious message in my paintings, there’s nothing I want to say, express or comment on. Nevertheless, I’m aware that art always expresses something despite the creator. Art is pure exhibitionism because it is free, every single unconstrained choice determines or explains loud and clear who you are or who you are not."



Santin is currently exhibiting at Marc Straus Gallery, New York.













Check his website: http://www.antoniosantin.com/

Source: hifructose; blouinartinfo

Optical Illusion Photograph by Béla Borsodi

New York-based photographer Béla Borsodi created this single image that looks like four separate images by cleverly placed all of the objects so they will be perfectly aligned to create an optical illusion.



The shot was used as cover art for band VLP's recent album, Terrain.



"If it touches you, if it excites you, if it makes you cry, if it makes you smile. A good photograph is something that you cannot resist looking at."



Check his website: http://www.belaborsodi.com/

Mind-Bending Paintings By Rob Gonsalves

Canadian artist Rob Gonsalves created these magic realism and well-planned optical illusions paintings where one image melts into another, twisting our perception.



















































Check his website: http://www.robgonsalves.com/ and facebook

Perspective Sculptures by James Hopkins

British artist James Hopkins creates these amazing series of perspective sculptures of famous cartoon characters.



"The majority of my practice is concerned with the role of judgment in connection to the process of vision."



"I am interested in optically adapting objects and imagery in order to create sculptural interventions, which momentarily knock the viewer’s perception off-kilter. I often slyly transform familiar objects and imagery, giving them the power of self-reflective commentary, converting them to different items and nudging them towards an ‘impossible’ state that produces a sense of amazement in those who behold them."



"My work is often concerned with as to whether we depend on fixed viewpoints to appreciate the rendering of space in perspective art. And raises the subsequent questions as to if any observation made from other areas than the fixed viewpoint may be considered incomplete."













Check his website: www.jameshopkinsworks.com

Source: mymodernmet

Street Art Illusions by Pejac

Spanish street artist Pejac (previously here) created these street art illusions on his trip to Istanbul, Turkey, using brushes, acrylic paint, and sandpaper.



He created three new trompe-l’œil pieces in the district of Üsküdar, titled 'Lock, Poster, and Shutters'.



“I have painted these Trompe l’oeil in the same zone of Üsküdar [on the Asian side of Istanbul], very close from one to another in order to establish a physical bond between them. ‘Trompe l’oeil’ literally translates from French to ‘eye trap.’ In the case of these three windows, the trap works in both directions: From outside to inside and from inside to outside.”













Check his website: http://pejac.es/