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
Jirsa combines such glossy everyday objects — actual or simulated with adept trompe-l’oeil painting — as black plastic trash bags, pink neon-tube hearts and metallic Mylar balloons emblazoned with, of course, blithe grins.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022
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 starts instead with Davis the fresh-minted Modernist, painting meticulous, trompe-l’oeil versions of Cubist collages that have local materials — Lucky Strike tobacco packaging, comic strips — as content.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 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 Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)
