Rob Gonsalves

“I believe that there is real magic in life. Sometimes the experience of it can be dependent on one’s point of view. I have come to see the making of art as the search for that point of view where the magic and wonder of life appears not so much as an illusion, but as an essential truth that often gets obscured.”
Magic Realism is a style of painting where reality is mixed with magic. Rob Gonsalves’ work is categorized as Magic Realism. More specifically, his paintings have an autobiographical, symbolic narrative that invites the viewer into his beautiful mind where alternative realities exist at the same time. His work is a visual, human experience of quantum theory’s Entangled Spaces and Time.
Rob Gonsalves made paintings that spoke to the joyful and wonderous imagination of children and to us adults who can still find that inner child willing to swing so high that our shoes touch the sky.
Born in Toronto, Rob Gonsalves graduated from the Architecture program at Ryerson University and worked in the field for a few years before embarking on internationally acclaimed painting career.
His architectural studies gave him the skill sets to manipulate points of view, perspective and scale in 2-D and enabled him to bend and play with reality. His influences include Magritte, Remedios Varo, Kurerlek and the ProgRock album covers of his teens.
Rob Gonsalves drew from his own personal narrative. He was inspired by Toronto and New York architecture, the night sky and the rugged, Eastern Ontario landscape of rock, trees and lakes where he eventually settled in 2001.
Gonsalves suffered from mental illness and ended his life on June 14, 2017. His official Facebook page stated in part "Rob Gonsalves battled the dark but succumbed June 14th." He was survived by his wife and extended family.
Fellow artist and widow, Lise Carruthers organized an effort to preserve his legacy in 2018. In 2019, a 4-foot-high black granite plinth was installed on his gravesite at the Necropolis Cemetery in Toronto Canada. Each side of the pedestal featured a different porcelain reproduction of a Gonsalves paintings. Future plans are for a series of art exhibitions featuring Gonsalves original paintings.
[from:www.robgonsalves.live/about
www.robgonsalves.live/gallery
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Gon...]
Music: Eraldo Bernocchi, Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie "South of Heaven"

[@UntitledKirk]

It always breaks my heart to find out an artist has ended their own life. Rest in peace to this man.

[@justherepotatoeing4289]

This was so beautiful n calming

[@brynicecream5824]

I love this artist’s ability to depict that strangeness that I so often feel. I liken it to the monks who see the mountain (as separate from themselves) and contain the mountains inside themselves all at the same time. Beautiful channel! ♥️ Thank you for all you do! ♥️

[@christineloui]

your videos always makes me feel something

[@Confusedm4n]

I love this channel very much, your content is the ticket to go to a much better place, thanks thanks thanks thanks < 3

[@DistantMirrors]

Thank you so much, so kind of you to say that!

[@siriusblackxxrucoy6094]

his paintings always have a boy alone or looking at the sky, or a woman leaving, I don't know if his mother is dead but I knew he had depression and killed himself, his works are amazing

[@Beautiple]

His works are used in Neuropsychology books to explain how certain brain parts work. But now it comes to my attention that the symbolical and metaphorical depth varies so much per imagine. The Oneness in his work has quite the qualities a Mystic would adore. Thank You!

[@jasonbovee7693]

The dreamlike music fit the surreal imagery perfectly...I love this channel.

[@CheckThisOut77]

Rob’s artwork is amazing. I have two signed lithographs and enjoy them very much.

[@kevinatenine9797]

Thank you so much for sharing this! I agree with the description. If you look hard enough you can find magic in life!

[@divinesaifsaif2993]

You make my day 🌊 If i see apicture of paradise and there's music work there I know it will bee like this🍃 Thank u🌼

[@mattwelcome2154]

Art of a mind that takes steps ahead and composition that seems formed to achieve a perspective already visualized. So very clever; fascinating and makes me smile broadly.

[@marielouisechateaubriant5995]

Love the way he paints the moonlight.

[@bugsnsiamesecats763]

This is so nostalgic. I used to be read a picture book and some of the photos from that book are in it. It gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling, thank you C:

[@wallykaspars9700]

Super visions and morphology.

[@Edbrad]

I love these because for me many of them represents the Zen (and related) Eastern Philosophical idea that there are no things, only concepts. (the real meaning of the idea that the true reality is nothingness/no-thing-ness”) and everything we think of as things are just useful tools for us as humans, from our human perspective. You think something is one thing and then you find it was something else, or it’s many things. You think something is the foreground then realise it’s the background etc. Anything that one thinks of as 1 thing can always be seen, with just as much validity, as an infinite number things from many dimensions. That’s what much of this art represents to me, it’s another reason I like optical illusions like the vase and the 2 faces

[@penduclaude8169]

Magnifique effet trompe l'oeil . Mouvement ...Merci 💟

[@ipnovitochannel8427]

INCREDIBILE !

[@flxckos]

Every piece is Striking

[@mirtazapin1969]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@mariagraziaciacia8023]

Surreale, fantastico: con musica adeguata ai dipinti ❤

[@user-ps8kk7tx3h]

Полнейшем восхищение работами этого художника, какое у него видение мира, какое чистое прано исходит от его картин, не верится, что такое может создать человек.

[@user-jn3yn9lw9r]

Прекрасно.

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Необычно и красиво !

[@_wimza_7983]

Fantastic

[@megilustraciones]

Amazing !!! This channel always surprises me with its magic !!! I always follow you and I recommend this channel !!! Greetings from Argentina

[@DistantMirrors]

Thank you so much!

[@PedroRodriguez-id1im]

Preciosos trabajos @DistantMirrors , son de una belleza sublime.

[@elisavieira737]

❤️

[@josuetellez608]

I loved 😍

[@ticcc3]

this guys incredible, this really did make my day thanks for the upload

[@DistantMirrors]

Thank you for watching!

[@johanneshaukanes4531]

What a talent. And this was before ai

[@demente8142]

Muchas gracias por compartir tantos buenos artistas 👩‍🎨

[@dreik0]

4 am thinkin bout life

[@HagakureBushido1]

Beautiful

[@westrain2]

Lovely

[@ljubicapopovic8811]

Real sofisticated art...

[@amelieharperstanford]

holy shit !!!

[@freethefreeman]

Just fkn wow, thanks!

[@jeffersonomarbravorizzo5811]

La parte donde el puente se transforma en barcos o los barcos forman el puente es alucinante al igual que el bosque y la cascada.

[@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace]

Please do Gina Litherland. I think she's right in your wheelhouse.

[@DistantMirrors]

Thank you for a great suggestion Arlene!

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🪄🪄🪄

[@jaysgood10]

No where in the description does it mention Escher.