Trompe l'oeil, I would argue, is the first truly conceptual art, more interested in what it has to say than in what it ends up looking like. For the painters in this show, that is, it's more important ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Trompe l’oeil is a fancy but useful art term for illusionistic painting.

Local artist and 2022 TAP Individual Artist Partner grantee Warren W. Kessler’s obsession with detail is in many ways the epitome of art imitating life. The trompe l’oeil painter’s recent projects ...

From the 17th Century and Cubism to today, trompe l'oeil art endures. Are we hard-wired to love things that are not as they appear to be, asks Caryn James. In Which Is Which? (1890) by the ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1760): These two paintings by the Texan Kirk Hayes are in his solo show in the little-known Horton Gallery, near Little India in midtown Manhattan. (I was led there by Joe Wolin, my ...

The 19th-century painter captured the taste and habits of a Gilded Age industrialist in this perfectly composed still life.

The term “trompe l’oeil,” meaning “fool the eye,” is an art style that was popular in the 19th century. By then, artists and audiences had enjoyed optical illusions for thousands of years. The ...

Trends in art often come and go -- and sometimes even re-emerge hotter than ever in a generation or two. Think impressionism. Some never go out of style. Think trompe l'oeil or trick-of-the-eye ...

The current exhibit at Morven Museum and Garden is like three exhibits in one. In the opening rooms you are introduced to New Jersey artist John F. Peto (1854-1907), a leader in the trompe l'oeil ...

WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON -- Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery of Art, toured the latest show in his museum 10 days before its opening. Workers were still adding the final touches as ...