trompe-l'oeil

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In the trompe l'oeil challenge, you had titled it "What's for Dinner," I think?

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Buddha: I really enjoyed the Wellington challenge, but I think I can't stop wrapping my head around the trompe l'oeil dish and I really loved it.

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Ali's attempt to create a garden isn't so much trompe l'oeil as much as it is creating a foodscape.

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Placing her as Dre's best friend operates as something of a trompe l'oeil given Dre's reason for living is to picture herself in the inner circle of musical royalty.

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In the last decades of the 19th century, while the art world was enamored with Van Gogh and Matisse, middle-class Americans became obsessed with trompe l'oeil paintings – hyperrealistic still lifes that featured life-size everyday objects.

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