What is trompe l'oeil painting?

trompe l'Oeil is French for "Trick of the Eye" and refers to any style of media (usually paintings) designed to create an optical illusion to deceive the viewer. The earliest remaining example of Trompe L'Oeil was found in revealing Pompeii and is thousands of years old.

Painting the object on the painting of still life, so the lack of movement does not betray the illusion.

Location of painting in its natural placement - windows at the right height on the walls, doors in reasonable places, crawling plants on the outside of stone structures - to help the eye passage.

The use of shallow shadow depth to make the items look as if they were actually present in a number of lighting conditions.

ensuring that at the end of the painting there are no main objects in the work, reducing subliminal stimuli that makes the brain look for a picture.

The illusions of the depth was widely used during the Baroque period to the "open" spaces of cathedrals and churches. The painters of the day would propose massive muralsdepicting open arches (complete with painted columns) who look in the sun, rolling hills and meadows. The Trompe L'Oeil style allowed architects to design closed spaces that could be reasonably heated and protected from elements, while allowing one to be in direct contact with the natural world.

The stories of animals think trompe l'oeil images for reality are many, from Roman writers who report real horses who attract greetings to painted horses, to birds trying - and fail - land on murals or birds. These stories are undoubtedly exaggerated, given the great relying on most animals other than the sight to identify objects in their immediate vicinity.

But people are easily deceived and many credible stories of people who are wrong that there is a real thing. Historian Vasari concerns the story of an art competition in ITalii, in which two artists competed for the title of the biggest painter. One revealed the image of fruit so realistic that nearby birds flew and hit the picture and tried to eat food. The judge then turned to the other painter and ordered him to reveal his image by pulling out the curtains that mask him. The other painter smiled with the triumph because the curtains themselves were his painting - so realistic that they deceived all the presence.

While the depth remains the most popular and famous form of Trompe L'Oeil, others exist. Da Vinci invented a special form of trompe l'oeil known as anamorphosis ("change" in Greek), in which the image is painted using an exaggerated perspective, so when many points are hardly recognizable as an object. Looking from the right perspective, however, seems to have perfect proportions. The best -known example of this style can be found on the ceiling of the GES Church in Rome. Great X indicates a place on the floor from where the ceiling should be monitored. This style allows the painter to adapt toSituations where the most common angle of observation will not be frontal and retains the desired proportions no matter how extreme it could be an angle. Road marking (indicating such things as "ahead stop") can be considered a somewhat secular example of anamorphosis.

trompe l'Oeil recorded in the last century a revival of popularity, while a number of architects employed her to help open spaces or simply dress designs. Competitions are abound in the United States and at the international level and reward the best artistic use of Trompe L'Oeil. Perhaps the most used is the more pragmatic trompe l'Oeil, drought such as those who were supposed to provide the illusion of faux surface, Craquelure or wood paneling on objects that are otherwise unadfeeded.