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| Rob Gonsalves, The Sun Sets Sail, Acrylic on Canvas, 2001 |
Artist Rob Gonsalves, known as the "Magic Realist", once a practicing Architect began painting full time in 1990 after receiving great feedback at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. This Illusionist has a style many consider along the theme of surrealism, and can wow you in his transition of blending scenes that will leave the viewer to think outside the laws of nature mixed in a dreamlike state.
Using his imagination and intellectual skill tought through his Architectural studies, Gonsalves is clever and witty in fooling the observer by placing a picture within a picture. Here in, deceiving the viewer by sometimes drawing your attention away from detail then back towards the detail within the hidden scene or meaning of his paintings.
