Comments on: Jean de Dinterville Skull Illusion

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:18:00 +0000

i had to do this in art a few years ago, now its not so amazing but when it was drawn ages ago it must have been very good

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:35:00 +0000

is it the thing on the ground? and if it is i still cnt see it cus i hav a laptop and when u look at it from the side the screen always goes kind of negative…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:41:00 +0000

i don’t get how to do it.
oh well

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:55:00 +0000

i can see it if i look from the very bottom left corner of my computer screen.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:12:00 +0000

I think this only works on the canvas, since computers did not exist back then.

By: Maestro

Maestro — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:23:00 +0000

hey, i saw this thing on the Big Bang once

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:12:00 +0000

that is kinda cool, only i couldnt see the skull totally because i have a flat screen and it turns funny colors on when i go to far to the side, but i still can see what it would look like thats cool

By: Annoyedteen

Annoyedteen — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:18:00 +0000

yes it works I see it but it’s not that impressive.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:09:00 +0000

I saw this painting at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Sq, London. The skull appears very 3-d and huge when you look from the bottom corner (but the museum guards don’t let you get too close). Pretty impossible to appreciate on this small-screen version.

By: charly girl

charly girl — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:33:00 +0000

Yeah you really do have to be almost horizontal with the canvas.

The artist painted this with the intention of hanging it on the wall of the stairs. So as you walked down the stairs and glanced at the painting you saw the skull, a fleeting image of death, ironic contrast with the ‘fleeting image’ of life.