Rob Gonsalves

Rob Gonsalves ( born 1959 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian artist whose works are mostly attributable to that magical realism.

Biography

Rob Gonsalves discovered in his childhood interest for art, as increasingly fascinated by colorful advertising. At the age of twelve years he inspired the architecture of many buildings and their perspective view on an image. He himself began to practice the preparation of perspective paintings. After he later studied the works of Salvador Dalí, he began to familiarize himself with surrealism. In addition, his style was heavily influenced by the MC Escher. Gonsalves, used but in contrast to Escher to paint very colorful pictures. During the progressive years of university Rob Gonsalves worked as an architect and moonlighting as a stage designer.

Work

Although Gonsalves ' seem to associate images at first glance to surrealism to be, very different from this art movement. As motives are Rob Gonsalves especially everyday scenes such as children swing. Furthermore, only shown things that exist in reality, but cause their position and size illusions that are impossible in reality. An example of this is ' Wilderness Gothic ', in whose foreground large churches or cathedrals stand with green roofs. The roofs go farther in the background, more and more in a coniferous forest on who is just as green. Images by Rob Gonsalves also remind strongly of the René Magritte.

Quotes

• " I believe that there is real magic in life. Sometimes it depends on your own point of view, whether they are recognized. Art is to provide for me the search for this point of view, where magic and wonder of life no longer appear as an illusion, but as fundamental, often hidden truth. "