A magical touch to the realities of the world can give us a surreal feeling. This is exactly what Canadian painter, Robert Gonsalves, does with his paintings which are categorised as being part of ‘Magic Realism.’ His beautiful works create such optical illusions that you will be forced to look at each painting numerous times, and each time with a new perspective. There are unclear boundaries in these paintings and you will simply be left marvelling at these masterpieces.
He started to paint at an early age and by the time he was 12, he knew about perspective techniques and architectural designs, and started painting imaginary structures and paintings. He has made some 70 paintings to date and completes almost four of them in a year.
#1 – A beautiful Moon
This painting depicts an amazing amalgamation of the vastness of outer space and the beautiful depths of a valley. Can you decide whether the girl, who is floating on the lake, is viewing the earth from the space or a valley? Well, even we can’t decide, but we can say that whatever it is, it’s pure magic.
2 – A lake or a girl?
Continuing with the fascination of a lake drenched in the night light provided by the moon, this painting by the king of optical illusions yet again creates a beautiful and mind-blowing impression. A lake bordered by pine trees whose reflections are making figures of women on the clear waters of the lake walking towards the edge. Simply surreal!
3 – A puzzle or a living room?
The sweet innocence of children playing in a living room is enhanced by the presence of yet another scene of children playing in the puzzle. It’s like children playing inside the house on something which is portraying children playing outside the house. A puzzle for your minds, isn’t it?
4 – A human bridge?
If you start to look at this painting’s left side, it looks like there is a train on a huge bridge; when you look at its right side you get to see groups of people performing amazing acrobatics. Can we perceive this painting as the representation of the hard work of various labourers and their team efforts in making such extraordinary structures? In my opinion, yes, and just how beautifully this painting portrays the importance of labourers and their immense contribution
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