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The young woman appears with her face turned away from the viewer while the old woman appears in profile, so the part of the drawing that represents the young woman's ear is the old woman's eye; the young woman's chin is the old woman's nose; and the young woman's choker is the old woman's mouth. [1]
This figure can be seen as a young woman or an old woman; see My Wife and My Mother-in-Law. Rubin's vase utilizes the concept of Negative space to create ambiguous images: the vase or two opposing faces.
W.E. Hill (January 17, 1887 – December 9, 1962) was an American cartoonist and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th-century. He is best known for his weekly full-page illustration series "Among Us Mortals" published in the New York Tribune from 1916 to 1922, and for creating the most popular iteration of the optical illusion My Wife and My Mother-in-Law (1915).
In his 1898 article, Morton explains how the Vanishing Lady illusion works: "At short intervals, the young woman would disappear into the pedestal (or so it seemed) and then reappear with a new hat, shirt and gloves, and so on. This went on and on, with a new hat every ten minutes, and so on. A [76 cm] platform is built into the showcase.
Art historians say Leonardo da Vinci hid an optical illusion in the Mona Lisa's face: ... "Portrait of a Young Fiancée," which is thought to be of an Italian girl named Bianca, shows the same ...
The Hering illusion (1861): When two straight and parallel lines are presented in front of radial background (like the spokes of a bicycle), the lines appear as if they were bowed outwards. Hollow-Face illusion: The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face.
Optical illusion is also used in film by the technique of forced perspective. Op art is a style of art that uses optical illusions to create an impression of movement, or hidden images and patterns. Trompe-l'œil uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions.
A British tourist was stunned to learn she had breast cancer after a photo opportunity at a museum picked up on the presence of a tumor. Bal Gill, a 41-year-old mother from Berkshire, England ...