trompe-l'oeil
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Remembering the 16th and 17th century artisans commissioned to adorn the walls of wealthy Europeans’ homes with murals and trompe-l’oeil, I encourage my friends’ 4-year-old to draw on the living room wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
A plain footstool jumps to life in trompe-l’oeil black and white — both a tangible artifact and an artsy abstraction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2021
It’s all part of the trompe-l’oeil effect of Macneal’s magical storytelling, which enables real and fictional characters to step together right off the page.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2019
The piercingly quiet derision of Hong’s bitter ironies makes “Yourself and Yours” a comedy of sorts, but one in which the laughter leaves viewers perched embarrassingly at the glass-walled edge of a trompe-l’oeil abyss.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 11, 2016
And some of the decorative painters only escape things by obtruding pigments, just as the trompe-l'oeil or optical illusion painters get away from pigments by obtruding things.
From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by W. C. (William Crary) Brownell
