Mr. Pearlstein, born in 1924 and now 85, pursued illusion via images of the human body.
The giant Imax screen and the current version of 3-D glasses certainly combine to create the illusion that images have jumped off the screen and are hovering in the air about two rows of seats ahead.
Bacon is next concerned with optical illusions, inverted images, magnification, vision of distant objects, the moon illusion, and such matters.
Colour illusions are images where the object's surrounding colours trick the eye into incorrectly interpreting the colour.
But often, as one continues to gaze, a strange sort of turbulence appears among the dots, and then a startling illusion — an image, a shape, whatever — will suddenly appear far above, or far below, the plane of the paper.
Brunch is an illusion, an image of picnicking on the banks of the Seine, days of nothing to do but stare into the waters of your lover's eyes.
Double effects of illusion and objectness, image and stuff, grace and crudity afflict comprehension.
Massy darks and filmy lights, in black conté crayon on textured paper, transpose visual weights and measures from three dimensions to two, abolishing Renaissance perspective in pictures of people and places that are easy to look at but impossible to really understand, what with their concatenating double effects of illusion and objectness, image and stuff, and grace and crudity.
TV, computer and cinema screens all flicker but provide the illusion of constant images because of the high frequencies at which they operate.
In this 20-minute piece, composed in 2008, Ms. Saariaho tries to evoke the illusion of moving images through the "variation of musical motifs at different tempos," as she puts it.
