trompe-l'oeil
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In contrast, David renders with trompe l’oeil precision the wood grain of the cheap crate that Marat was using as a table beside his tub.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
He plunged into the archives, taking inspiration from fashion house founder Franco Moschino’s sense of subversion, love of archetypes and trompe l’oeil playfulness.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024
The Plains of Yonder team looked at 16th century art and trompe l’oeil paintings to establish the imaginative visuals that mix the “sacred with the profane.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2023
He does all this with a combination of flat, saturated color, trompe l’oeil shadows and tiny, overlapping daubs of paint that split the difference between TV static and Ben-Day dots.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023
He was awake, lying spread-eagle in his big platform bed, looking up at the trompe l’oeil painting of a domed and gilded ceiling that was open at the center to a pink sky.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
