22 Paintings By An Incredible Artist That Will Make Your Head Spin

As a young boy, Canadian painter Rob Gonsalves, gained inspiration from artists like Salvador Dali and Yves Tanguy. He was enamored with their ingenuity, and the boundlessness of surrealism and the imagination it instilled in him.

Some time during the middle of his life, after receiving extreme acclaim at an art exhibit for one of his pieces, Gonsalves decided to pursue painting full time. His style, while representative of surrealism, is not as disjunct. He calls it, "magic realism" - a confounding combination of reality and impossibility. And the mind-bending illusions he creates through his works are indeed, nothing shy of magical.