Video: The art of creating illusions: paintings by Yau Hung Tang
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Malay artist Yau Hung Tang lives in Kuala Lumpur. In fact, he is an engineer by education, but one day he decided to quit his job and earn money solely by illustration. It was 4 years ago. Yau Hung Tang devoted himself entirely to the art of creating works of illusion. The paintings of the Malay master are a game with negative space - a background, a place beyond the edges of the depicted objects. In this exciting game, the city turns into a forest, and day turns into night.
Usually, a person perceives a picture like this. He subconsciously divides the canvas space into background and significant elements. In this case, the viewer is primarily interested in objects and people, and the background is practically not taken into account. That's why they are intervals, so as not to carry important information, but to give an opportunity to take a break from it.
Optical illusions are constructed in a completely different way - pictures in which everything is important, including negative space. In fact, it ceases to be negative and is no longer an empty space. Former gaps themselves become equal characters in the picture.
The so-called illusions are pictures oversaturated with meanings. They do not have the usual "white spots" of free space - there are only contours that simultaneously separate objects and combine them. The objects depicted in the paintings seem to flow into each other. If there were no border between them, everything would have been confused: both horses and people.
“I like to create illusion paintings that easily mislead the viewer,” says artist Yau Hoong Tang. “After all, in everyday life we mainly rely on sight, and yet it so often deceives us.”
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