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trompe l'oeil
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trompe l'oeil (trôNp lö`yə): see illusionism illusionism, in art, a kind of visual trickery in which painted forms seem to be real. It is sometimes called trompe l'oeil [Fr.,=fool the eye]. The development of one-point perspective in the Renaissance advanced illusionist technique immeasurably.
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trompe l'oeil


(French; “deceive the eye”)

Style of representation in which a painted object is intended to deceive the viewer into believing it is the object itself. First employed by the ancient Greeks, trompe l'oeil was also popular with Roman muralists. Since the early Renaissance, European painters have used trompe l'oeil to create false frames from which the contents of still lifes or portraits seemed to spill and to paint windowlike images that appeared to be actual openings in a wall or ceiling.


trompe l’oeil
Ceiling and wall paintings that deceive the eye, creating the illusion of three dimensions.


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I have a theory that all trompe l'oeils are still lifes but not all still lifes are trompe l'oeils," said Gallarda, who is self-taught in trompe l'oeil, unlike several of the painters in the invitational -- some of whom studied under Waichulis.
Taylor separates herself from the hobbyists through ambition and from the history through subject matter: Innately precious, marquetry has rarely been used to describe ordinary people, let alone ordinary people in California, and the most remarkable examples I know of are not narrative landscapes but still lifes and trompe l'oeils.
A freelance decorative artist, she specialises in murals and trompe l'oeils, where the viewer is led to believe that something painted is actually real.
 
 
 
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