Illusion
Related: fantasy - fantasmagoriana - hallucination - illustration - magic - senses - suspension of disbelief
Contrast: reality
Vertumnus (1590-1591) - Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Many artists have worked with optical illusions, including M.C. Escher, Bridget Riley, Salvador Dalí, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Marcel Duchamp, Oscar Reutersvärd, and Charles Allan Gilbert. [1]
Definition
An illusion is a distortion of a sensory perception. Each of the human senses can be deceived by illusions, but visual illusions are the most well known. Some illusions are subjective; different people may experience an illusion differently, or not at all. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion [Jun 2004]
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