Reverspective Art

Reverspectives are three-dimensional paintings that when viewed from the front initially give the impression of viewing a painted flat surface that shows a perspective view. However, as soon as the viewer moves their head even slightly, the three dimensional surface that supports the perspective view accentuates the depth of the image and accelerates the shifting perspective far more than the brain normally allows. This provides a powerful and often disorienting impression of depth and movement. The illusion is made possible by painting the view in reverse to the relief of the surface, that is, the bits that stick farthest out from the painting are painted with the most distant part of the scene.

Series 2

Three pieces of reverspective art: House of Cards (2019) Lunar Robot (2020) and Robotics (2021) make up Patrick Hughes’ second series for VeVe!

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Robotic (2021)
Robotic depicts a green robot about to emerge from a wooden crate.  Robots are imitation humans, mechanical men, comical in their rigidity and mechanical gait – a bit like human men in that regard. A robot is an excellent vehicle for reverspective because it has already been designed in a simple rectilinear way.  The wooden crate is also a good subject for reverspective art, in that its linear perspective and shading and shadows make it stick out in space in a convincing way. The robot in his crate is seen on a grassy knoll with his crate lid lying before him, ready for some robotic action.

Drop Date: 30 April 2023, 8 AM PT
List Price: 50.00
Editions: 600
Rarity: Ultra Rare
Edition Type: First Edition
License: Patrick Hughes
Brand: Reverspective Art
Series: Series 2

Lunar Robot (2020)
Lunar Robot contrasts the actual robot in the left-hand panel with the illustration on the box in the right-hand panel. The ‘real’ robot obeys the laws of (reverse) perspective, while the printed robot and its lettering dance to a different tune. The robot in its box stands on the moon with the earth hovering nearby, and the robot’s robot dog is barking with joy. My reverspectives are often concerned with boxes, boxes often appear in perspective, made in reverse in my sculptured paintings.

Drop Date: 30 April 2023, 8 AM PT
List Price: 50.00
Editions: 600
Rarity: Ultra Rare
Edition Type: First Edition
License: Patrick Hughes
Brand: Reverspective Art
Series: Series 2‍‍

House of Cards (2019)
House of Cards is a metaphor for a vulnerable institution, an arrangement likely to fall down after one small assault. I chose the house of cards as an image that would echo with reverspective as it moves and changes according to how it is viewed. It is proud and vulnerable, and the playing cards play well in perspective. The tiled roof and the grassy knoll situate it happily in front of the sky. Reverspective brings the house of cards to tenuous life.

Drop Date: 30 April 2023, 8 AM PT
List Price: 70.00
Editions: 450
Rarity: Secret Rare
Edition Type: First Edition
License: Patrick Hughes
Brand: Reverspective Art
Series: Series 2

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_{Patrick Hughes
‍Patrick held his first solo show in 1961 at the Portal Gallery, London. A few years later, Hughes made two seminal reverse perspective works, Infinity and Sticking-out Room. In the 1970s Hughes’ name became synonymous with rainbow paintings, which also became very popular as prints and as postcards; people enjoyed them as decoration, but for Hughes the rainbow represented a solid experience.}

_{In the late 1980s Hughes revisited exploiting the difference between perspective and reverspective and solidifying space. For the last 25 years his 3-D reverspective paintings have been hughesually in demand, exhibited around the world and featured in many public collections. The experience of seeing a Patrick Hughes sculptured painting in reality is really to experience unreality and the paradox of illusory space and movement.}

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