trompe l'oeil

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• Paul Getty Museum resurrects Ronald Davis, an artist hailed in the 1960s for adding trompe l'oeil twists to his geometric abstracts like "Vector," , while the Otis College of Art and Design focuses on L.A.'s early feminist artists, like Judy Chicago. A New Home for Arab Treasures
• Christophe Koziel calls his trompe l'oeil creations -- which also include photographs of antique furniture and accessories for the grown-ups -- "trompe l'oeil, revisited. Ohdeedoh
• From a trompe l'oeil window on one side of the Palazzotto, a frescoed woman looks down, faintly mocking, faintly imperious.
• He is said to have painted a trompe l'oeil of grapes which was so realistic that birds tried to peck at them.
• In a trompe l'oeil manner, the artist mixes painted renderings of the seated and standing figures with such affixed elements as a pair of suspenders, dungarees, a plastic bouquet and fabricated wood heads and arms.
• Some early painters delighted in a style called trompe l'oeil, French for "trick the eye. Brain Blogger
• I'm restoring the trompe l'oeil, making it look like rosewood with a mahogany inlay. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
• In the room from North East, he settled on a faded coat of greenish-blue paint visible over earlier layers of white and trompe l'oeil graining.
• This group of paintings are very specific to San Francisco and SFMOMA, but there are some common themes that recur, such as shifting perspective lines, the edges of the wood beveled panels that are hand-painted in trompe l'oeil over the surface of the paintings, hand-painted abstractions which she refers to as "captions," intense optical patterning, as well as directional motifs such as arrows. Quaytman Explores Terrain Between Text and Image in New SFMOMA Show
• This group of paintings are very specific to San Francisco and SFMOMA, but there are some common themes that recur, such as shifting perspective lines, the edges of the wood beveled panels that are hand-painted in trompe l'oeil over the surface of the paintings, hand-painted abstractions which she refers to as "captions," intense optical patterning, as well as directional motifs such as arrows. Quaytman Explores Terrain Between Text and Image in New SFMOMA Show