Optical illusions come in all forms, from mind-melting artwork to photography trickery, but there's one style that never fails to perplex the internet – the humble colour illusion. Fooling the brain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kinetic and Op art pioneer Carlos Cruz-Diez has died in Paris at the age of 95. One of Latin America’s best-known artists of the second half of the 20th century, Cruz-Diez worked with bright layers of ...

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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 ...