Erik Johansson's car art | Car Talk - Car News May 2012

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10:36 Thursday 07 Jun 2012

Automotive art, to most people, is a dreary watercolour painting of an old Jag or a 1930s Blower Bentley parked next to a lake, or perhaps in a narrow street in an olde-worlde English village.

Go to Clinton's cards and peruse the 'Grandad' section and you'll find a similarly twee display of automotive nostalgia.

However, modern automotive art can be exciting, a point which Erik Johansson, a 27-year-old Swedish artist is trying to prove. Johansson uses digital image manipulation to create fantastic optical illusions and you'd have to agree that the results are... impressive.

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