Mural of a Reflection Illusion

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Paul Jennings sent me an incredible mural painting this evening. Don’t worry folks, I have your submissions in my queue, and are still waiting to be posted, it’s just that this one slipped higher on priority list by accident. It has nothing to do with his flattering for the site ;) This is what Paul [...]

Astonishing 3D Wall Painting Illusions

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Jay sent me these magnificent murals done by the unknown artist (if you know who the artist is, please post). These photos look so real, that people really get confused. Trompe l’oeil is the phrase for these realistic murals, done in the same way Julian Beever paints sidewalks. I adore these kind of artistic expressions, [...]

Kurt Wenner’s Waterloo Station Street Art

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I just came home from Greece yesterday, so you’ll pardon me for not posting for the last two days. It was beautiful and joyful trip, but now I’m back to take care of the site once again. If you missed the whole deal about my trip, read last few articles, and you’ll get the full [...]

The Invisible Prince

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One person emailed me (or left a comment) about this awesome illusion called “The Invisible Price”. Unfortunately, I can’t retry his notes, but if I remember correctly this is the original illusion of this type. It was created 200 years ago and can be found painted on a wall of a nursery in some children [...]

Melting Building Mural

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Richard Murphy helped me remember of a mural I had intention writing more about. It is trompe-l’oeil which is at Georges V Ave. in Paris, France. Trompe-l’oeil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist, instead of being just two-dimensional paintings. It [...]

Melting Spot Illusion

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Xavier Kreiss pointed me to this interesting photograph that shows a building that is supposedly melting right now. It looks darn hot over there! Offcourse it’s just an illusion, as you expect it to be, but here are more details Xavier shared with us: “Global warming has struck Paris first! Buildings have started melting! OK, [...]

Optical Illusions “Background”

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Toine Heuvelmans submitted this original art: “Hi, I noticed on your great mighty optical illusions blog a number of trompe l’oeil, and remembered an exposition in Holland of the work of Cornelius Gijsbrechts. This Dutch painter was specialized in painting very realistic. He used this to paint for example “the back of a painting”. If [...]

Mural Trunk

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Another use of Trompe L’Oeil (murals) is to give simple objects depth and bulges. What you can see in these two photos isn’t real trunk, in fact it’s just a simple wooden square. Like an over sized brick. If you look closer, you will see that all the belts, nails and other ornaments are just [...]

Oregon Museum Mural

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For all of you that celebrate it, I wish you Merry, Merry Christmas! All others, I wish you happy hollydays as well! Be sure to spend them with your beloved ones, and enjoy yourself! Here’s today optical illusion submitted by one of our regular users. Ivai777 submitted this mural: “Hey, I found an illusion [...]

Paris Mural

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“London-based Frenchman” Xavier Kreiss sent me this after/before photo of a Paris building mural. When you see the first photo, you probably won’t notice anything strange with it. Now when you jumped inside, and saw second photo… Bam! It hits you. Can you believe this whole building was almost-flat wall before artistic painting? Really awesome! [...]