A Rose is Still a Rose

Assignment of the day: first of all download.. errrm… buy Aretha Franklin’s song “A Rose is Still a Rose” to get you in the mood, and then look at the optical illusion below. Rose is popular motive in literature, art and romance. Well, optical illusions are tightly connected with art. The image below belongs to “Multiple Meanings” category, and that is only hint you’ll get from me. Look at the image, observe it, and try to figure why it’s an optical illusion in it’s nature. If you noticed, the style is very similar to What Do You See Illusion and Autumn Motives. Probably they all came from the same artist. I believe there were few more similar ones posted in the past, but I can’t recall them. Use the search box in the sidebar if you wish, after you download Fergie ringtones from the bottom of the site :P


113 Replies to “A Rose is Still a Rose”

  1. I see the face .. I see the face…oh errrmmm nope i dont i see a shoe…. i see a rose in a window backed onto a church looking thing… MMMmm what could it be …Nope i am lost Rose on a windows with an old building thingy…Nope i have lost it…

  2. nice. i like how the wooden frame around picture is also an impossible object.

    Plus the leaves and even the stem goes beyond the picture.

  3. I like the multiple illusions in this one…I noticed the frame first and then saw the shoes and had to look for more from there.

  4. I quickly saw the illusion in the rose. Nice and subtle. And then I noticed that the frame itself is an impossible object. Cool.

  5. there are many other things going on than just the people in the rose. the rose itself is a picture, yet the stem and the leaves extend beyond the paper. also, both the frame and the arch in the background are impossible objects. very cool.

  6. apart from the obvious dimension changes in the fore and background (ie-the flower leaves are over the wooden part and bend with the page), you can see that the woman inscribed in the flower has stripped shoes and stockings to get to the guy there too. its good!

  7. Kindda cool. I think that was So So.

    That’s a great painting, the illusion is very easy though, but nice work by the artist.

  8. Oh that’s awesome. And really pretty. :) Normally i find them a bit tricky but i got it quite quick, it was subtle but there were some clues too – which was good. Like a bit of a trail.

  9. That’s an amazing one! At first it’s just a rose throughh a window, then the rose has the two people kissing, then it looks like it’s peeling of like a framed picture! And if you look carefully at the the top windowsil/frame it’s an impossible rectange sorta thing too.

  10. That is just too disgustingly beautiful.
    That woeman flips off her shoes…, stripes off her nylons…, and embraces her lover…, naked.
    Well…, at least it may be a man…, this time.
    Absolutely wonderful.
    We want/need more.

  11. Nice, impossible objects (frame and twist on background arch), illusions of 3 dimensions and hidden images (I noticed the fallen petals weren’t fallen petals first, then thought of why there’d be shoes and discarded stockings before looking back to the rose, which had looked slightly odd to start with) all combined.

  12. Wow, that´s awesome, I saw it after two seconds. I didn´t spot the hidden tiger or the face in the rocks, this is much simpler.

    Whew, I really thought that this site was going downhill, but that´s brilliant:)

  13. Yeh the two people makin love inthe middle of therose ini? i dunt see no shoe tho i just see the two people gettin it on!

  14. That is a verily pretty illusion. I like it. I saw it quickly, but more illusions should be like this. It is really very cool.

  15. La Vie en Rose was the title of a recent movie about the life of Edith Piaf, a French singer who was famous especially in the 40s and 50s. It is also the title of one of her most famous songs, which is what you should listen to. This poster is particularly appropriate to her life, which was one of passion and oddities.

  16. it’s an illusion bcuz the paper is separated in the frame and the rose’s leaves are out of the frame… there is a shoe… then the stemm of the rose is out of the wooden frame

  17. what’s cool.. is that her shoes have fallen to the bottom of the pictures and her scarf is hanging.

  18. e-noRm – i think they’re doing a little more than just kissing if you get my drift….. but its still really sweet and romantic

  19. i c a man and a woman kissing. if u look at all the petals exept for the very bottom ones u will c it. (hint : the woman is on the left) i like it yay

  20. I’ve seen this one before, if I could find a poster of it somewhere, I’d buy it in an instant. One of my favorites, for sure!

  21. Does anyone know where I can get a print or poster of this optical illusion? I would love to have a print of it. thanks. :)

  22. Actually, theres another illusion in there. Look again, and then you can check below.

    The window/picture frame is impossible. Look at the top. it curves somewhere near the middle, probably undeer the sign…
    But if the sign wasnt ther, it would be impossible

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