ADJECTIVE
-
creating the illusion of seeing reality
the visual deception of trompe-l'oeil art
How To Use trompe-l'oeil In A Sentence
- the visual deception of trompe-l'oeil art
- But it is almost entirely depthless: a trompe-l'oeil of elusive ideas and replicant emotions.
- Serve these in small mugs for a trompe-l'oeil effect at least one of your guests will unknowingly try to take a sip of dessert.
- Lobe's project dwells on replication but not copy, on transformation and reconfiguration, trompe-l'oeil with a twist, and gives more than just a nod to notions about materials and process.
- Originally painted as a trompe-l'oeil log cabin, following his debut as scenery artist for a local panto, Dornan's villa was later decorated in colourful rhomboids.
- In the stylish El Galatino on the Gran Via you dine to the quiet clink of cutlery beneath trompe-l'oeil walls and earthy plasterwork.