A Dutch artist has started making unsightly structures disappear though various optical techniques, creating a more beautiful–and way more interesting–looking city. Roeland Otten, a designer in ...

More than 100 years ago, British artist Norman Wilkinson developed the "dazzle" pattern. He first created it with the ability ...

During World War I, the Atlantic was in chaos. German U-boats prowled the seas, looking for Allied ships to destroy. To ...

A controversial, high-contrast camouflage that once decorated the hulls of World War I battleships really exists in nature — though whether humans are fooled remains an open question. "Motion dazzle" ...

A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of "dazzle" camouflage on battleships in World War I by Aston University researchers Professor Tim Meese and Dr. Samantha Strong has found that ...

The Public Art Fund is diving into a new medium—the sea. This summer, the arts non-profit is presenting the historic Fireboat John J. Harvey with "dazzle camouflage" by Tauba Auerbach, and you can ...

Tauba Auerbach will follow Tobias Rehberger, Peter Blake, and Carlos Cruz-Diez by transforming a fireboat in the avant-garde style devised during World War I. Carlos Cruz Diez, Induction Chromatique à ...

A reanalysis of a 1919 study suggests that a separate illusion, the "horizon effect," played a bigger role in warping visual perception than dazzle paint. Reading time 3 minutes During World War I, ...

KETCHUM — The Sun Valley Center for the Arts invites the community to an opening celebration for its new visual arts exhibition. “Safety Zone: Dazzle Works by Angela Tsai” will be open from 5 to 7 p.m ...

In the animal kingdom, there is a special kind of evasion mechanism where an animal relies on bright colors and patterns on its skin to camouflage its movement, using it as a visual trick to mask its ...