illusionism

Examples of illusionism in the following topics:

• Art and Illusion

  • Illusions are distortions of the senses, and are often used by artists to create visually intriguing artwork.
  • Illusions may occur with more of the human senses than vision, but visual illusions - also known as optical illusions - are the most well known and understood, perhaps because vision often dominates the other senses.

• The illusion of control

  • ., ‘When the Stakes are High: A Limit to the Illusion of Control Effect', Social Cognition) Most people will also value a lottery ticket more if they choose it rather than if one is chosen for them at random.
  • (Langer, Ellen, ‘The Illusion of Control', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 32) A similar study revealed that well educated subjects actually thought that they could improve their prediction of coin tosses through practice.
  • (Langer, Ellen, and Roth, J., ‘Heads I Win, Tails It's a Chance: The Illusion of Control as a Function of the Sequence of Outcomes in a Purely Chance Task', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 34) Obviously, in all of these examples the subjects had no control over the outcomes of the acts described, yet as psychologist Leonard Mlodinow reports, on a deep, subconscious level they must have felt they had some control because they behaved as if they did.

• The Second Generation

  • As seen in "The Garden of Earthly Delights," Bosch's work employs more dream-like imagery and is seemingly less concerned with direct illusionism compared to the Flemish masters.
  • As seen in "The Garden of Earthly Delights," Bosch's work employs more dream-like imagery and is seemingly less concerned with direct illusionism compared to the Flemish masters.

• Perceiving Motion

• Linear Perspective

  • Perspective developed as part of a developing interest in illusionism related to theatrical scenery and detailed within Aristotle's Poetics as 'skenographia', or, using flat panels on a stage to give the illusion of depth.

• Linear Perspective and Three-Dimensional Space

  • By the later periods of antiquity, artists—especially those in less popular traditions—were well aware that distant objects could be shown smaller than those close at hand for increased illusionism.

• Rembrandt

  • Stylistically, Rembrandt's paintings progressed from the early "smooth" manner, characterized by fine technique in the portrayal of illusionistic form, to the late "rough" treatment of richly variegated paint surfaces, which allowed for an illusionism of form suggested by the tactile quality of the paint itself.

• Flemish Painting in the Northern Renaissance

  • The three most prominent painters during this period—Jan van Eyck, Robert Campin, and Rogier van der Weyden—were known for making significant advances in illusionism, or the realistic and precise representation of people, space, and objects.

• Architecture of the New Kingdom

  • Like other Egyptian structures, common techniques were the use of symbolism and illusionism.