AMBIGOUS IMAGES Ambiguous images are optical illusion images which exploit graphical similarities and other properties of visual system interpretation between two or more distinct image forms.

A VASE OR A PROFILE? If you look at the middle (white part)you can see a vase. If you look at the sides (black parts), you can observe two profiles looking at each others.

Count the legs… This illusion makes it impossible to count the legs of the elephant. The object itself cannot be globally segregated from the nonobject or background. Parts of the object (in this case the elephant’s legs) become the background, and vice versa. HAVE YOU COUNTED THEM??? HOW MANY ARE THEY???

BREAST OR HEADS??? The image represents a woman with her bare breast. The men in front of her create the illusion and their heads are confused with her breast.

A MAN’S HEAD OR A WOMAN??? In this bearded man’s profile you can percieve a woman’s body(man’s forehead and nose).

FACE OR BRAINS-MAN??? The man’s brain is nothing but another crouched up man.

MEN OR COLUMNS??? These balcony columns seem to divide three couples of men who are looking at each other.

SALVADOR DALI’ Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes”to a self-styled "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors. Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics.

ARCIMBOLDO In the 16th century, an Italian painter named Giuseppe Arcimboldo was on the cutting edge of his craft as he painted composite portraits of people using a variety of objects. Some of his most famous paintings involved creating portraits out of fruits and vegetables. He used books to represent the head and torso of a man.

MICHAEL PIAZZA FILIPPO PESCHIERA NICCOLO’ MAIA