Chaotic Random Items Form Illusion

Bernard Pras is a master of anamorphic illusion where he arranges random items to look like a realistic portrait of a person when viewed a specific way. Take for example his latest piece displayed at Le Palais Idéal, in Hauterives, France. The French painter, photographer and sculptor pieced together a portrait of French postman Ferdinand Cheval with items such as a couch, a Buddha head, a wheelbarrow, and a broken guitar among others. Viewers realize the genius of his artwork when they take a peek through the special viewing device positioned at an exact angle and sees the striking image reconstituted the way Pras intended it to. The portrait is the artist’s way of paying homage to Cheval, a humble postman and a misunderstood artist who took 33 years to build ‘Le Palais Ideal’, a rock sculpture made from rocks he collected during his daily mail route.

To see an example of anamorphic street art, try Odeith’s Mind-Bending Anamorphic Graffiti.

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