Tall, with unruly wavy hair, thick eyebrows, big, expressive eyes and a giddy laugh, Heath Johnson has some of the look of a mad scientist. And there is a kernel of truth behind the appearance. In his ...

Glass flowers nestled inside hunks of glass finely shaven down with diamonds. A mesmerizing orb that appears to be floating, but is in fact just a two-dimensional acrylic painting on canvas. At the ...

Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions. Rather they are the products of artists who have used their insights into the workings of the human eyes and brain to create illusions ...

Optical illusion street art is hard to resist. Instead of just creating unbelievable renderings, these op artists transform the world you live in, turning sidewalks into canyons and making street ...

Giovannini has created what he calls “impossible space” using the techniques of forced perspective to create optical illusions, or “space painting,” in this L.A. loft. The art piece Incident on the ...

Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions. Rather artists have used their insights into the workings of the human eyes and brain to create illusions in their artwork. Long before ...

Intelligent quotient (IQ) is a measure of human intelligence across various domains, including abstract reasoning, memory, and problem-solving abilities. Optical illusions are a great tool to assess ...

Driving down Madison Avenue in 1965, artist Bridget Riley noticed storefronts filled with eye-catching frocks whose prints had been lifted straight from her wild, colorful paintings. Horrified, Riley ...

Are Jean Paul Gaultier’s classic op-art prints the new leopard, an aggressively bold pattern that, thanks to sheer longevity, is now considered basic? Kim Kardashian West was the latest celebrity to ...