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Trompe L'oeil (trick-of-the-eye)

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Painted Truck Optical Illusion | Optical Illusions by Visual Fun House. The Painted Truck Optical Illusions are photoshops (as you can see its the same truck used in each picture) never the less its a cool illusion. These are european Semi Trucks have all be painted with a different theme/product. Would be neat to see one actually going down the road! The first is a bottle of European beer coming out of the side of the truck.

The second is a large canvas tote bag! (the tote semi! Lol) The pepsi truck is stacked to the top… well the top down.kinda a weird system of hanging them but hey the floors clean. This is one of my favorites, it would really be distracting going down the road! This Fish tank painted truck is one giant fish tank! Big Truck with some Big Books, this is a library fit for a giant! This last one is a Painted Pringle’s Truck. The Real Life Paintings of Alexa Meade « THE FIRE WIRE. Alexa Meade has innovated a Trompe-L’Oeil (trick of the eye) painting technique that can perceptually compress three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane.

Her work is a fusion of installation, painting, performance, photography, and video art. Rather than painting a representational picture on a flat canvas, the 23 year old artist from Washington D.C. paints her representational image directly on top of her three-dimensional subjects. The subject and its representation become one and the same.

Essentially, her art imitates life on top of life. Meade coats her models with a mask of paint, obscuring the body while intimately exposing it, creating an unflinchingly raw account of the person. The painted second skin perceptually dissolves the body into a 2D caricature. Like this: Like Loading... Authorised Graffiti Area. A selection of works by British graffiti artist Banksy. Trompe l'oeil. Trompe-l'œil. Trompe-l'œil (French for deceive the eye, pronounced [tʁɔ̃p lœj]), which can also be spelled without the hyphen and ligature in English as trompe l'oeil,[1] is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

Forced perspective is a comparable illusion in architecture. History in painting[edit] Still life, Pompeii, c. 70 AD Though the phrase originates in the Baroque period, when it refers to perspectival illusionism, trompe-l'œil dates much further back. It was (and is) often employed in murals. Instances from Greek and Roman times are known, for instance in Pompeii. Perspective theories in the 17th century allowed a more fully integrated approach to architectural illusion, which when used by painters to "open up" the space of a wall or ceiling is known as quadratura. In other art forms[edit] Trompe-l'œil is employed in Donald O'Connor's famous "Running up the wall" scene in the film Singin' in the Rain (1954). Trompe loeil Trick of the Eye. The Picture Framer by Bill Mundy repeats itself endlessly Trompe l’oeil is more of a style of painting than a movement.

In it for example, architectural details are rendered in extremely fine detail in order to create the illusion of tactile and spatial qualities. This form of painting was first used by the Romans thousands of years ago in frescoes and murals. It can be seen in many towns and cities across Italy today where paintings on the side of buildings for instance, trick the eye into thinking that you are looking at doors, windows or alleyways, when in fact what you’re looking at is a flat wall. The above picture by British artist Bill Mundy is a perfect example of this type of artwork. In it we see the painting reappear endlessly within the picture frame and seemingly going on forever. Similar Posts you might like: Trick of the Eye: Delightfully Deceptive Works of Art. Trick of the Eye: 13 Delightfully Deceptive Works of Art Article by Delana, filed under Street Art & Graffiti in the Art category. Hyper-realistic paintings and drawings can make us pause and wonder whether they’re real, but there’s another, even more deceptive, form of super-realistic art that’s been in use since ancient times.

Trompe l’oeil means “trick of the eye” in French, and this type of painting definitely lives up to its name. With examples that date as far back as ancient Greece and Pompeii, this deceptively realistic art form features pictures that seem to jump out at the viewer, drawing them into a mysterious, often whimsical world. (images via: Brown) The oldest report of a trompe l’oeil painting dates back to ancient Greece.

Zeuxis, a very talented painter, challenged Parrhasius to a contest: the artist who painted the more realistic painting would win. In fact, such murals have been used in buildings for thousands of years to give rooms an illusion of more space. Trompe L'Oeil Murals...Trompe L'Oeil,Murals and Faux Painted by Art Effects.