There is an enormous market for visual trickery, and people love art that deceives their sight.

Salvador Dali, M. C. Escher, and Duchamp are some of the best-known champions of visual manipulation, but the modern-day artists are also conventionally and digitally creating cognitive illusions that compel viewers to take a second look. Two-dimensional surfaces are getting transformed into cavernous artworks made with simple graphics and coloured chalk and are laced with concealed images, turning ordinary photos into surreal landscapes. Check out the world's five best modern-day artists who create mind-boggling illusive art.

Leandro Erlich

This Argentina-based artist baffled people with his spectacular mirrored street art installation in Paris. People were captivated by this illusive art. Erlich had brilliantly created a life-sized facade of a building on the ground, while a mammoth mirror projected the image, tricking the sight of the people. “L’ultime Déménagement” is another incredible artwork that displays the sculpture of an enormous building facade, which is anchored with nothing more than a ladder to the ground.

Julian Beever

Julian Beever is a world-known artist who creates petrifying pavement art using chalk. Beever worked as an assistant photographer, art teacher, tree-planter, carpet-fitter, English teacher, and street entertainer. If you ever walk past her work, you might catch yourself wobbling atop a Time Square building or sitting on a horrifyingly steep Ferris wheel.

Damien Gilley

Damien Gilley is a Portland-based, multidisciplinary artist who uses contact paper and colorful tape to create illusive depth on two-dimensional surfaces and flat walls. His creations are painstakingly calculated and measured, and he uses specific dimensions and proportions in every place where he creates his artworks. The geometric precision of his work offers flat objects an extensive sense of space and depth.

Ramon Bruin

Ramon Bruin is an airbrush artist, well-known for creating suave optical illusions that appear to pop out of his drawings. This Dutch artist’s paintings also appear somewhat distorted, meaning scenes from his artworks look three-dimensional when viewed from a specific vantage point, which he creates employing the anamorphosis technique.

Oleg Shuplyak

Oleg Shuplyak creates dreamy paintings that appear as classically styled portraits of landscapes or personalities from culture, fiction, and art at first glance. When inspected closely, his paintings create optical illusions of both—classic figures ( like John Lennon, Charles Darwin, and Vincent Van Gogh) and landscape scenery—meticulously styled to resemble facial features like eyes, lips, hair, noses, and also their larger counterparts.

If you love paintings with optical illusions and some psychological edge, follow the artworks of these artists and get blown away by their talent.