The Art of Ambiguity

Ambiguous - the art of explaining two things at the same time, causing some sort of optical illusion and ambiguity to whoever see the artworks. In visual art, certain images are visually ambiguous. Take this picture below as an example...

What do you see from the picture:

Face of a rabbit? Or a duck?

What do you see:

A human face or tree and landscape?

Pictures or photographs may also be ambiguous. The visual image might not be ambiguous, but the meaning and narrative may be ambiguous: is a certain facial expression one of excitement or fear, for example.

Take a look at the photo above;

Does he feel excited or afraid?

"I do not believe that art should be explicit. It should be suggestive and ambiguous so that the viewer has to enter in." - Balcomb Greene

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