They are about capturing visual paradoxes: sometimes they would depict calm and contemplative moments, like solitude or melancholy.

While most two-dimensional artists use relative proportions to create an illusion of depth, Escher here and elsewhere uses conflicting proportions to create the visual paradox.

Fourteen years later, the Agnew picture portrays another visual paradox.

Alluding constantly to the primacy of sight yet revealing all the while the fugitive, chimeric nature of apprehension, the paintings remain firmly suspended in visual paradox.

Combat was full of visual paradox.

Jack Kroll of Newsweek, praised Rudolph's direction; "he has a real eye for the visual paradox, the elegant and even beautiful form in which this savagery sometimes works."

He likes to use visual paradox, double meaning images and illusionistic approaches while following traditional printing techniques such as woodcutting and etching.

He likes to use visual paradox, double meaning images and optical illusion - all of them are some kind of attack upon the eye, an Odysseus' gesture in a symbolic way.

His landscapes are made of fluctuating fields, empty houses that are out of proportion, quiet and rich in creepy shadows that create a disturbing sort of visual paradox.

They rejected social realism and nationalism and incorporated surrealism, visual paradoxes, and elements of Old World painting styles.