New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences Issue 5 (2017) 1-8 ISSN 2421-8030 www.prosoc.eu Selected paper of 5th World Conference on Design and Arts (WCDA-2016), 26-28 May 2016, South East European University Skopje-Macedonia The Anamorphoses of Felice Varini Cristiana Bartolomei a *, University of Bologna, Via Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy Alfonso Ippolito b , Sapienza University of Rome, Piazza Fontanella Borghese, 00100 Roma, Italy Suggested Citation: Bartolomei, C. & Ippolito, A. (2017). The Anamorphoses of Felice Varini. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences. [Online]. 5, pp 1-8. Available from: www.prosoc.eu Selection and peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Ayse Cakir Ilhan Ankara University, Turkey © 2017 SciencePark Research, Organization & Counseling. All rights reserved. Abstract In the works of the Swiss artist Felice Varini, the fusion of color, space, architecture, geometry and visual perception make room for spectacular spaces. Taking advantage of the synergy between the anamorphosis and color, the artist creates optical illusions. The colored forms assume their real semblance only when observed from a particular point of view. Form all the other angles they seem to be just random stains of color. The right point of view is generally situated at the average height of man along the inevitable route, for example along the way from one location to another. However, this is not always so because not all spaces have a systematically superimposed obvious way of passing through them. He brings forth and uses simple geometrical forms: squares, triangles, ellipses, circles, rectangles and the like. These forms are generally created with primary colors: red, blue or yellow, and very rarely with such colors as white or black. Keywords: anamorphosis; optical illusions; geometry; * ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE: Cristiana Bartolomei, University of Bologna, Dipartimento di Archiettura, Via Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy E-mail address: cristiana.bartolomei@unibo.it / Tel.: +390512093914