# Erotic Abstract Art Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 5, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140 "2010-10-05T17:17:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/21 "2010-10-11T03:21:54Z")

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> [@AClockworkMelon](#):
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> > [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> > Hard to find the couple again once I saw the dolphins. 🙂
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> Really?
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> I immediately saw the couple and thought to myself “what dolphins?” I had to look at it a moment longer for the dolphins to appear for me.

No, I am lying. :rolleyes:

I saw the couple at first, sought for the dolphins, but having found them, it is difficult to see the couple again. The guy’s face isn’t very clear, for example.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/22 "2010-10-11T03:39:55Z")

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I personally find that the dolphins don’t work as well, as there’s no reason for them to be only partially surrounded by the white. Stuff like the [couple/vase illusion](http://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/vismath/jadrbookhtml/921.jpg) work better, because they actually cut off the entire image, and you fill in the blanks of what goes on outside the borders. When seeing the people, you assume they are complete, but when you see the vase, you assume the background color is infinite.

Of course, the fact that they are apparently identical twin fudgeheads\*, it does mess with you a bit.

\*Well, they have high hair, and it’s easy to cut the hair off like, say, [Jimmy Neutron](http://www.nick.com/shows/jimmy-neutron/characters/jimmy-neutron.html).

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/23 "2010-10-11T13:04:34Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Intimate couple or dolphins?
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> * * *
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> [http://mytechquest.com/interesting/d...ee-9-dolphins/](http://mytechquest.com/interesting/d...ee-9-dolphins/)
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> Supposedly, kids see the nine dolphins in the and not the intimate couple. I’m skeptical but have no kids on whom to test.

Amazingly enough, this piece is on conspicuous display in the Boston Museum of Science, in the second-floor section of Optical Illusions, where plenty of kids look at the dolphins every day.

“Erotic Abstract Art”, Indeed

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/erotic-abstract-art-question/556140/24 "2010-10-13T17:35:39Z")

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> [@Rain\_Soaked](#):
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> Picasso’s [The Dream](http://www.worldgallery.co.uk/art-print/The-Dream-7601.html). Guess what she’s dreaming of?

Not having a penis come out of her chin?

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