Paperback / softback
Description
Trompe-l'oeil, a French term meaning to trick, the eye, describes a painting that deceives the spectator into thinking that the objects in it are real, not merely represented.
To successfully fool the eye of the viewer, trompe-l'oeil artists choose objects, situations and compositional devices using as little depth as possible.
A heightened form of illusionism, the art of trompe-l'oeil flourished from the Renaissance onward.
The discovery of perspective in fifteenth-century Italy and advancements in the science of optics in the seventeenth-century Netherlands enabled artists to render objects and spaces with eye-fooling exactitude.
Both witty and serious, trompe-l'oeil is a game artists play with spectators to raise questions about the nature of art and perception.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages, Illustrated in colour throughout
- Publisher:Skira
- Publication Date:06/10/2008
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- ISBN:9788861305403
Information
-
Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages, Illustrated in colour throughout
- Publisher:Skira
- Publication Date:06/10/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9788861305403
