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| Trompe l'Oeil
is French expression literally meaning "to
fool the eye", a style of painting technique whereby
forms painted on flat planes which gives the appearance
of three-dimensional, or photorealism
and exist in deep space. It
is also called as illusionism,
the history
of trompe l'oeil dates back to the 4th century BC in
Greece;
the grapes in Zeuxis's
paintings were said to seem so real that birds would
peck at them. The Renaissance
development of linear
perspective greatly advanced trompe l'oeil technique.
During the baroque period, trompe l'oeil reach its apex
in the enormous ceiling and mural
paintings of various Roman churches and palaces. The
vogue spread north in the succeeding rococo period and achieved
fullest flower in Austria and Bavaria. The 19th-century
American still
life painter William
Harnett was a master of representational illusionism,
a contemporary
version of which is seen in photorealism. The term trompe
l'oeil and illusionism also refers to the creation of spatial
illusions in architecture. |
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