Trompe l’oeil, meaning “deceive the eye” in French, is an art technique which uses realistic imagery to create the illusion that something exists in three dimensions. It is very difficult to paint as it requires a meticulous attention to detail. The sizing, light, use of shadows, and every detail must be near if not perfect in order to make the tro-dimensional piece to appear three dimensional. A particular form of Trompe l’oeil called di sotto in su was first used by the Italians where they would paint on the ceiling to give the illusions of greater space. It is also used in stage theatre set design to make the stage look bigger than it actually is. Something that helped me understand the concept a lot more was the Looney Tunes. Coyote paints a tunnel on a wall to trick the Road Runner into running into it but he actually goes straight through it, Coyote goes to chase after him but instead hits his own Trompe l’oeil. “The Crevasse” a Painting by celebrated German man Edgar Mullar took fave days and took up a massive 820 square feet of ground. Another interesting fact about Trompe l’oeil:
‘A version of an oft-told ancient Greek story concerns a contest between two renowned painters. Zeuxis (born around 464 BC) produced a still life painting so convincing that birds flew down to peck at the painted grapes. A rival, Parrhasius, asked Zeuxis to judge one of his paintings that was behind a pair of tattered curtains in his study. Parrhasius asked Zeuxis to pull back the curtains, but when Zeuxis tried, he could not, as the curtains were Parrhasius's painting—making Parrhasius the winner.’- Wikipedia.
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