Night House: Artist Cloaks Suburban Home Facade in Starry Skies
House painting is such time-consuming and meticulous work just to get a single color on a facade; perhaps next time you could clad your home in printed image of the night sky ...
Tag: illusion
Chalk it Up to Illusion: Hyperrealistic 3D Sidewalk Murals
Polar bears, orcas, lions and puppies stick their heads out of holes in the pavement so convincingly, you feel like you could actually pet them. What was once no more than a dull expanse of concrete ...
Road A-Peel: Upside-Down Car Clings to Curling Street
An upside-down, cherry-red car clings improbably to a slice of a concrete parking lot as it curls up over itself in this gravity-defying installation by British artist Alex Chinneck. Hanging in ...
Architectural Magic: Big Stone Building Breaks Free & Floats
A work of art, genius and incredible effort, half of this replica structure appears to hang in mid-air, seeming at once a perfect aesthetic fit for its surroundings and completely disconnected ...
Mirage Muralist: Street Artist Bends Surfaces Using Illusion
With works often requiring second looks or sanity checks, artist Pejac bends reality in his use of paint and other materials to create sublime art from walls, streets, sidewalks and ...
Trick of the Light: 12 Shining Works of Holographic Art
Holograms suggest a depth and dimension that isn't really there, an illusion of matter in space that can range from a low-tech flickering image in a children's book to ghostly computer-generated ...
Invisible Tree: Trunk Wrapped & Camouflaged to Float on Air
A simple illusion with so much potential - wrap an object, paint the wrapping plastic and presto, a central section appears to disappear before your eyes. In the the case of this ...
Shadowy Secrets: Colorful Layering Creates Trick 3D Murals
Worthy of a double-take twice over, these convincing wall artworks reveal imaginary depths and amazing arrays of color ... all seemingly hidden behind dull peeling paint and inside innocuously ...
Half Invisible: Deserted Desert Cabin Remixed with Mirrors
Unlike a mirage on the horizon, this quaint little abode is entirely real, even if it seems to half-disappear through alternating wood and (seemingly) see-through slats. A project by ...
Weightless Space: Ghostly Floating Room Hovers in Midair
A fantastic feat of architectural trickery, this anti-gravity ante-room installation appears to hover in thin air and open up into nothingness. It sports a single point of contact with the ground ...
