Oral presentation: CURIOUS IMAGES

Now, I’m going to talk about curious images. There are lots of types of this, but I
have chosen some of them.
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I’m going to show you some types of optical illusions, impossible figures, hide
images and curious paintings by Dalí and other artists.
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1. Cafewall
 Do you see parallel lines in the bottle?
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 Well, this optical illusion is called cafewall because was discovered in the
wall of a café by Richard Gregory and other collaborators.
 It seems that the files aren’t been separated by parallel lines…but, as you
can see in the second image, the lines are parallel.
 It is caused by the different position of the black and white squares.
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2. Ouchi Illusion
Here you have to look the bottle and move your head around…
When we move our head around while we are viewing picture, the bottle
seems to move above the chequered background.
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 It is called Ouchi illusion, because the Japanese Hajime Ouchi was its
inventor.
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3. Rot snake
This optical illusion is called rot snake because each round represents
one snake on moving.
 These are two examples of companies who use the rot snake to do
adverts.
 The picture on your left is an image of the campaign from of Time Force
watches and on your right is a shop window of a Milano’s shop.
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 This illusion is very good because the rounds are on moving all time.
 Its inventor is Kitaoka and the popularity of his optical illusion has done
that it has been used for different companies.
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4. Impossible figures
 In 2004 Audi launched an advertising campaign to promote a new car. The
slogan was “The progress isn’t an illusion” and it was based on the use of
the impossible figures.
 The campaign had:
o Press adverts like the image on your left (with an impossible
balcony).
o And visual adverts, where the car went trough a city which has
some impossible places.
o The images on your right are examples of the city. Here, the pillars
aren’t possible and here, the bridge is also impossible.
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5. Hide images
 Here we have hide images, pictures that depending on each person there is
one or another object.
 Sometimes it’s difficult to see the second object but these pictures are easy.
 On the first picture there is an Indian who has a black hair and a big nose…
but we also see an Eskimo from behind.
 The second picture is very well-known and I’m sure you have seen it lots of
times. If we look it from left to right we see a rabbit and if we see it from right
to left we see a duck.
 And on the third we can see a face of a girl, and also, a man playing the
saxophone.
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6. Dali’s paintings
Now, I’m going to show you some hide images in two Dalí paintings.
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 “Swans representing elephants” (1937)
o At first, we have swans representing elephants. Swan, in Catalan,
means “cigne”.
o Here, the title of the painting is already telling us the effect.
o Swans are reflected on the water and their reflexes are elephants.
o I think it’s a very good painting because the swans and their reflexes
are perfect.
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 “Paranoiac face” (1935)
o The second is called Paranoiac face.
o One day, Dalí, readimg his papers found this postcard. Quickly, he saw
a human face on it and after being sure that this was by his imagination
he decided to paint it.
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o The result was it. In his painting we can see the face better because he
has painted some trees for represent the hair (a characteristic that the
postcard hasn’t).
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7. Other artists
And finally, I’m going to show you curious paintings by other artists.
- John Pug
 At first the paintings by John Pug.
 They are really impressive because they seem real and walls aren’t
destroyed.
 That painter is specialist in doing murals of the Trompe l’oeil type. This
type of optical illusions uses different techniques to get the perspective.
 First mural is called “Seven point one” and it’s in California.
 And the second mural is called “Academe” and is also of California.
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- Paul N Grech
 Second paintings are of a New York painter, Paul N Grech.
 Here, we have Einstein and Beethoven faces which are composed by
people or animals.
 (Einstein) Here you can see one person, here another and here a duck.
  (Beethoven) And there, you can see lots of farm workers including his
hats.
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- André Martin de Barros
 And to finish, I show you the paintings of André Martin de Barros, a French
painter, who paint men using fruits, books, flowers and trees.