Extra Credit
This is Paul Bond's Lao Tzu's Dream. (Do you know what Lao Tzu's name means? Old Teacher. ) Yeah, I'm a total STAN. Look at how he uses hyper-realism (the stones' texture) but utterly surreal elements...you know, the tree & such...knock the viewer a little off balance. Plus, it's a little mockery of the whole hipster cairn-building fad. He's good.
Do you want to see a few more? Check out Magical Realism Art by Paul Bond and enjoy!
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M.C. Escher is a Dutch artist and is well known for his surrealist artwork and optical illusions. Escher tends to combine multiple objects and merge them together to create an illusion so it’s almost as if there are 2 different things you’re looking at. Metamorphosis is a perfect example of one of his famous pieces.
Here is the link to his other artwork if you are interested, trust me, you will be.
M.C. Escher