Trompe-l’oeil

Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, 2008
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Trompe-l’œil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three-dimensions, instead of actually being a two-dimensional painting.

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photo: Maarten Vanden Eynde, 2008

Pere Borrell del Caso
Escaping Criticism, 1874

Trompe L’oeil