Artsy Hacks: Surreal Paintings Jacek Yerka

I'm missing something, how they are hacks? Surreal juxtapostions yes, but hacks...

"Masters of Deception" covers this kind of stuff really well: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Deception-Artists-Optical-Illusion/dp/140275101X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Deception-Artists-Optical-Illu...</a><p>In particular the cover was done by Rob Gonsalves: <a href="http://www.discoverygalleries.com/ArtistGallery.asp?artist_id=23&#38;category_id=2" rel="nofollow">http://www.discoverygalleries.com/ArtistGallery.asp?artist_i...</a><p>interestingly the same name was used by a hacker group in the 80s: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Deception" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Deception</a>

These paintings are... amazing. I <i>love</i> this guy's style. I wish there were a game stylised like this (it's sort of like Braid, but somehow better). Thanks for this post.

it is strange that this link have made it to the front page of HN.

Direct link to artist's site: <a href="http://www.yerkaland.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.yerkaland.com/</a>

These paintings are definitely surreal but I was expecting something a little more Escher-like, like his Waterfall for example. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_(M._C._Escher)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_(M._C._Escher)</a>

Awesome paintings this is truly some great art. But how in world did this get on the front page of HN, this is reddit material.