Beyond The Reef "Beyond the Reef," a beautiful painting by Rob Gonsalves in 2014, shows two different perspectives in one painting. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Rob Gonsalves began his interest in art as a young child. He used his imagination and put his ideas on a canvas. Art that people generally see focuses on one scene or idea. In other words, it shows ordinary scenes with ordinary objects. With magical realism, you might at first see an ordinary scene, but the closer you analyze it, the more surreal it becomes. This idea of surrealism shows in “Beyond the Reef” by Rob Gonsalves. At first glance, “Beyond the Reef” looks like an ordinary painting of a man and women swimming beneath the ocean… or maybe at first glance to you, it looks like