Pictures of Rob Gonsalves: on the verge of reality

"I like to draw images that create a connection between the environment created by man, and nature. This is the starting point for developing an image that expresses my desire for what is thought to be mutually exclusive and incompatible, "commented artist Rob Gonsalves.

Biography

Robert Gonsalves was born in 1959 in a gypsy family. The native city is Toronto, Canada. Since his early childhood, Rob has been keen on drawing. He walked with a pencil everywhere and often made sketches in a small notebook. The artist did not leave his passion at the amateur level - at the age of 12 he is studying the technique of prospects. At the same time, he creates his first paintings.

The desire for perfect and well-adjusted forms leads him to study architecture. After graduating from college, Gonsalves arranges to work as an ordinary architect. Confidence in the future gives a career in a construction company, self-realization is the writing of pictures. Rob Gonsalves also finds an outlet in creating scenery for local theaters and frescoes that skillfully created the illusion of reality.

In 1990, the artist takes part in an exhibition of street art. The paintings of Rob Gonsalves cause great interest and much praise. This recognition of the public and art connoisseurs inspire Rob to abandon the architect's career and devote himself entirely to creativity.

To date , the artist has created about 70 unique in its kind and in the meaning of paintings. His work is in great demand. And since over each picture the artist works for about three months, those wishing to get the long-awaited canvas have to pay a considerable sum.

The magic of Rob Gonsalves

The work of the artist was greatly influenced by such surrealists as Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, René Magritte, Mauritius Escher. However, the paintings of Rob Gonsalves are not exactly surrealism. This is, rather, realism. "Magic Realism" Goncalves. His paintings are at the junction of the real world and the illusory world. The boundary separating these two universes, the artist plans and draws with architectural accuracy.

At first glance, his pictures seem ordinary, but it's worthwhile to look closely at how reality begins to play a joke with you - to change literally before our eyes, opening up from another, absolutely unusual side. The ambiguous paintings of Rob Gonsalves suggest thinking about the duality of being. The world becomes the way you see it. Change the point of view, the vision will change and the reality surrounding you.

The most famous paintings

In the foreground of the picture "Dancing water" is clearly drawn dancing in white elegant girls, however, having looked narrowly, we see how the figures in the long term merge into one stream, forming a streaming waterfall.

A boy standing in a cave, looking at stalactites and stalagmites, faces the magic of two worlds. "As on top, so below" is a perfect example of how Rob Gonsalves's paintings combine works of architecture and the creation of nature.

"Towers of knowledge" is another example of how objects familiar to us all smoothly flow into buildings. In the picture, an ordinary city library with stacks of books is smoothly transformed into a beautiful city under the prezakatnym sky.

Summary

This is the whole of Goncalves, playing with the world of man-made and created by nature itself. The artist, as a great illusionist, carefully keeping his prestige, makes magical real scenes. Looking at the pictures of Rob Gonsalves, one can not help asking questions: "What is real and what is seeming? What is important, but what is secondary? ". It is impossible to tear yourself away from viewing his canvases until you begin to perceive the entire picture as a whole, with all its metamorphoses and the flow of one object to another. This is the main message of Goncalves: the impossible is possible.