In reality, the trompe l'oeil lies somewhere between the two.
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There were trompe l'oeil stretch pants made to resemble denim.
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" Meade continues, "My paintings are a like a reverse Trompe-L'Oeil.
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Art technique that's French for "fools the eye" TROMPE L'OEIL 222A.
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Constant spatial confusion and frequent trompe l'oeil effects connect these two artists.
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It also includes a simple but stunning bit of video trompe-l'oeil.
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It's a ridiculously fun trompe l'oeil project for children and adults alike.
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In fact, the technique of trompe l'oeil dates as far back as 1600.
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A vast window upstage offered a totally convincing, trompe l'oeil view of Paris.
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On another, trompe l'oeil ants crawl among the feathery, gilt tendrils of Bocksay's work.
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Some figures breach geometric borders and there seems to be a trompe l'oeil effect.
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Set within a grove of trees, it is painted as a trompe l'oeil tree trunk.
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It all seems a clumsy attempt at trompe l'oeil, to give the illusion of depth.
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Many of Baehrel's dishes are trompe l'oeil, with foraged ingredients subbing for more traditional ones.
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This show at Matthew Marks includes a few trompe l'oeil sculptures modeled on real objects.
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The entire installation is composed of stunningly convincing trompe l'oeil paintings directly on the wall.
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For #TFWGucci, the #LeMarchédesMerveilles watch is a familiar symbol tweaked by the trompe l'oeil turning page.
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It contained trompe l'oeil paintings, artificial flowers and a fake Tardis, or perhaps a real one.
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"At once whimsical and classical, trompe l'oeil draping brings quirky sophistication to a room," said Brockway.
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They build on the 18th-century tradition of trompe l'oeil painting, but have a darker cast.
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Using these overlapping layered synthetic fabrics, Parallax Gap will create a more abstract representation of trompe l'oeil.
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Slices of stories are hidden inside visual lacerations that serve as a unique type of trompe l'oeil.
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Check it out:For even more amazing trompe l'oeil murals, check out the A-Fresco website (in French).
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No, to this trompe l'oeil of a pudding masterpiece we add a healthy scattering of white chocolate.
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There were black and white striped shirtdresses, denim printed with trompe l'oeil patches, and faux family crests.
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It's worth noting that the episode's title, "Trompe L'Oeil," refers to the French expression for an optical illusion.
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Yet the live-action characters fit seamlessly into this world, right down to Mary's trompe l'oeil dress collar.
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At the same time, Böröcz uses thousands of laminated pencils that are carved into trompe l'oeil plastic creations.
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"Despite its fame, trompe l'oeil is often thought of as a cheap trick, an architectural one-liner," notes FreelandBuck.
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Everything in this three-dimensional trompe l'oeil environment is made from brown cardboard, hot glue, and flat black paint.
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A sweeping floor-length black velvet cape sported a pair of trompe l'oeil crossed arms, picked out in crystal.
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At Salvatore Ferragamo, Paul Andrew played with plush shearling and foliage-embroidered chunky cashmere and trompe l'oeil corseted tweeds.
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It sits atop a table cloth of trompe l'oeil Cheetah fur, with an implication that is too dark to contemplate.
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The building is eccentric even by Hollywood standards; one doorway doubles as the mouth of a large trompe l'oeil gargoyle.
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Her father, who died when she was 20, was in insurance; he later quit and became a trompe l'oeil painter.
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Some engage directly with traditional artistic techniques, such as trompe l'oeil (fool the eye); others photorealistically render a post-industrial landscape.
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Also trompe l'oeil evening looks that turned out to be palazzo pants (that was a good idea), and billowing balloon gowns.
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NLXL, a Dutch company that produces trompe l'oeil wallpaper, heeded a call for more neutrality with a subdued collection called Monochrome.
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The miniature trompe l'oeil artworks were suspended from diamonds and colored gems, including amethyst and citrine, in earrings, cuffs and minaudières.
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The waitresses wear the traditional Uzbek kuilak (a long tunic) and lozim (pants), the trompe l'oeil patterns looking like animal pelts.
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And in a corner on the floor sits Rondinone's trompe-l'oeil, "Still Life (one pear)," a cast bronze with yellow paint.
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He's still making trompe-l'oeil ceramic replicas of everyday objects, from a scrap of corrugated cardboard to a clamshell takeout container.
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The exhibition includes paintings on unstretched canvas and paper, trompe l'oeil sculptural objects, animations, and drawings done in graphite and charcoal.
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Her trompe l'oeil columns and painted panels evoke the décor of many Italian villas without parodying them, like a gentle tribute.
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In Thomas's case, he pushed skateboarding to dangerous new heights; in Klein's case, he enticed his audience into believing his trompe l'oeil.
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Second, they defy gravity, which makes this and other work outliers in the trompe l'oeil tradition, where fooling the eye is key.
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Moschino's 1989 trompe l'oeil evening dress shows the lower half of a ballerina's one-legged stance, suggestive of this precarious balancing act.
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"Trompe L'Oeil," the seventh episode of HBO's "Westworld," revealed a twist that some sharp viewers had guessed almost from the show's beginning.
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His canvas has nearly trompe l'oeil textures and tacks, in contrast to the quiet mayhem of Mr. Fox's paint handling in general.
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Look But Don't Touch: Tactile Illusions on Maps at the Harvard Map Collection explores how cartographers have used trompe l'oeil illustrations on maps.
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Home and Work With his towering rope urns and trompe l'oeil rugs, F. Taylor Colantonio has created a surrealist world of his own.
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They suggested both an office-fooling trompe l'oeil trouser-under-skirt look and, when a flash of thigh appeared, stockings sans garter belts.
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DRATS maximized the look with increasingly baroque confections, some with improbable wings and trompe l'oeil jewelry, like paste crystals sewn into the neckline.
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Pliny the Elder writes of a set whose painted trompe-l'oeil roof tiles were so realistic that crows tried to alight on them.
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It is in fact a cement box, hollow inside to let the letters of visitors slide through, a feat of trompe l'oeil marbling.
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Don't miss the funky balls of colored masking tape that resulted from making the nearby trompe l'oeil paintings of expanses of linoleum and woodgrain.
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But the emperor was also interested in international innovations, such as European trompe l'oeil painting, which he admired for its illusion of infinite space.
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An army of volunteers on Tuesday started pasting a colossal 160,000 square feet paper image over the courtyard to prepare for the trompe l'oeil.
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That trompe l'oeil effect is a result of what is offered: chocolate-covered foie gras, savory marshmallow cubes with caviar, and smoked-salmon pops.
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Consider: a jewel and aluminum foil trompe l'oeil; an AK-topus with a Jesus piece; a crayfish-braided dumpster zombie with Lil Yachty hair.
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"Weave," with bright green pigment on a yellow ground has trompe l'oeil "fraying" edges, while "July" mimics the irregular arrangements of vernacular patchwork quilts.
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Quinn withholds evidence of the hand, releasing the means of his trompe l'oeil trickery to viewers willing to lean in and decode the marks.
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For the evening, sleek jackets with front zips were exaggerated at the hips, almost corset-like, while colorful sequined dresses had a trompe l'oeil effects.
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Chopra paired the trompe l'oeil stunner with jewelry from Nirav Modi and metallic Schutz heels for a look that's equal parts polished and party-ready.
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Manal Abu-Shaheen photographs trompe l'oeil billboards of familiar scenes (suburbia, Big Ben) partially hiding the rubble-filled and unfinished landscape of her native Beirut.
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Some works even venture into the realm of trompe-l'oeil, with opaque strokes of terra cotta giving way to deep space teeming with ethereal lines.
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The performance is a continuation of a giant trompe l'oeil three years ago that made the pyramid disappear behind a giant black-and-white photo.
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Men hovering around forty fall regularly for nineteen and twenty-year-old women, and, living "trompe l'oeil existences," crush the lives around them, Poirier writes.
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These high-waist, semi-shiny leggings, with a sheer panel and trompe-l'oeil lace-up detailing, provide just that – while being surprisingly fun and flattering.
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His trompe l'oeil "lemon egg-ceptional" fooled diners by presenting them with an eggshell made of white chocolate encasing a "yolk" made of lemon meringue.
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" Grace Deveney, who organized the Chicago show, said that Ms. Quarles "draws on trompe l'oeil and Cubism in a way that feels fresh and interesting.
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The entire park of Westworld is a trompe l'oeil, deceiving its rich guests into believing an amusement park filled with robots is a living place.
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And throughout there are drop shadows, generally considered tacky, that create delicious trompe l'oeil effects, causing whatever shape or mark they shadow to float forward.
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By the early 1970s, his trompe l'oeil paintings of fabric-covered still lifes were being featured at Documenta and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Art Review Steve Wolfe, an artist who died last year at 60, was known for the small, select library of trompe l'oeil books he created.
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There were lavishly lashed eyes blinking from either side of a squared-off buttonless black jacket, profiles forming trompe l'oeil lapels, atop sleek tuxedo trousers.
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Thom Browne subverted the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by turning him into a woman — and then turning his suits into trompe l'oeil sheaths.
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And so we come to "Trompe L'Oeil," an episode explicitly named for the artistic technique of making the eye perceive a flat object as three-dimensional.
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He paints bags of flour and cereal boxes, and he's made trompe-l'oeil sculptural objects of a package of Chuckles and toasted marshmallows on a stick.
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"Rather than add a lower drop ceiling, we were hoping to extend the limits of the room upward— trompe l'oeil came immediately to mind," notes FreelandBuck.
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In a 2016 essay on Moore's work, John Yau called the painting "vertigo-inducing," an apt response to the work's mix of Magritte and trompe-l'oeil.
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In an untitled 1997 abstract seascape that is mostly blue sky, she painted two thick black lines (birds) with drop shadows for a trompe l'oeil effect.
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A lot of the story is confusing, and trompe l'oeil drawings of pills and flower petals will appear over parts of the comic panels obscuring information.
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A faux parquet floor in the large foyer hints at the next living area, a lavish grand illusion, where trompe-l'oeil columns meet elaborately painted ceilings.
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Dior's artistic director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, presented a dreamy, Surrealist-inspired collection filled with diaphanous trompe l'oeil dresses and playful face masks designed by Stephen Jones.
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In Atami, the photographer and his friends paid about $9 to get into the Trick Art Museum, where visitors can take photos in trompe l'oeil paintings.
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The clothes were in bright, supersaturated colors printed with trompe-l'oeil shadow effects, as if the model had stepped out of a Dick Tracy comic strip.
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Justice appears next to the sprawling fresco that depicts that historic fight, leaning against the painted red curl of a trompe l'oeil tapestry, staring at her scales.
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And so we are delighted by Elsa Schiaparelli, the woman whose wicked humor and radical modernism brought her fame through trompe l'oeil sweaters and lobster-emblazoned dresses.
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Bright patterning — of natural flora or geometric trompe l'oeil effects — is often woodblock-printed on it, or watermarks are threaded in, on pages lined vertically for calligraphy.
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The nice thing for a blues skier is that the formidable views give even the easy trails a trompe l'oeil plunge effect: the thrill without the terror.
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Along with these nods to American architecture, Parallax Gap will also utilize an older technique from architecture and painting, the trompe l'oeil famously used in Renaissance decorative ceilings.
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Twenty large trompe l'oeil photographic portraits by John Rankin Waddell, known as Rankin, a co-founder of Dazed and Confused magazine, are staggered like dominoes along the road.
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In the south-facing living room, with the pooch-friendly throws, she added crown moldings painted in a trompe l'oeil style, with a motif of flutes and medallions.
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Room, too, should be made for sour cherry dumplings in crimson-stained skins and a trompe-l'oeil chocolate salami conjured out of crushed biscuits, cocoa, hazelnuts and prunes.
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And then in '83 I saw his solo show at Leo Castelli when it had that big space and it was all that new work with trompe l'oeil.
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If you know someone who has a key, you can stroll among its sarcophagi, which look like marble but are papier-mâché, an impressive feat of trompe l'oeil.
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So a Lautner aficionado arriving one recent evening might have been surprised to see men wearing Looney Tunes jerseys and track suits covered in trompe-l'oeil gold plaques.
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Van Eyck appears again with his 1433–5 "Annunciation" diptych, its grayscale figures reflected within painted black marble in illusory niches in a trompe l'oeil technical tour de force.
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In "Living Room 2600 C.E." (2019) a foreshortened figure floats in midair, feet toward us; the position is reminiscent of a cherub painted on a trompe l'oeil baroque ceiling.
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Dating to the classical Greek and Roman eras, trompe l'oeil — the term, translated literally from French, means "fool the eye" — depicts objects in paintings in realistic, three-dimensional detail.
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It starts instead with Davis the fresh-minted Modernist, painting meticulous, trompe-l'oeil versions of Cubist collages that have local materials — Lucky Strike tobacco packaging, comic strips — as content.
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The fourth piece is a little painting of a rose bush where rough gestural lines contrast sharply with a digitally influenced color fade and more trompe l'oeil water droplets.
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White's trompe l'oeil technique also involves painting the clay surface in a hyperrealistic style, which accentuates the clay's three-dimensional qualities, giving it shadows, highlights, and variations in color.
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Urs Fischer goes site-specific with a beautiful expanse of trompe l'oeil wallpaper that replicates drywall patterned with splotches of glue and interrupted by exposed beams and electrical conduit.
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Louis Vuitton has its most exceptional hard-sided pieces, including tone-on-tone Monogram Eclipse luggage ($8,950) and a trompe l'oeil boom box bag (price upon request), on display.
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One part wants to be Impressionistic, one part wants to be hard-edged Minimalism, one wants to be trompe-l'oeil, and another is going to just be cartoony and flat.
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It's unusual to see a poet write poetry with philosophical subtlety — the diametrical opposite of the Conceptual Poets who use allegory and trompe l'oeil effects to make a larger point.
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With rigorously silk-screened exteriors (Evian, Cutty Sark, Gateway 2000), the open cartons "hold" a profusion of books — in reality only a top, trompe l'oeil layer — in striking mosaic counterpoint.
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Thanks to advances in medical-grade glue, what was once penciled trompe l'oeil is now possible in three dimensions with semi-permanent extensions, single fibers glued to each individual lash.
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The second half of the exhibition will focus on camp as expressed in the work of contemporary designers, from the use of trompe l'oeil to pastiche, irony, theater and exaggeration.
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This week's bloody episode is titled "Trompe L'Oeil," French for "deceive the eye" and a term used in visual art for creating optical illusions that a painting seem three dimensional.
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Carnwath's paintings are comprised of layers of warm whites on which she draws and writes, always in paint — what may look like a pencil mark is actually masterful trompe l'oeil.
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From left: trompe l'oeil Kubilai's Tent and Brazil wallpapers from Iksel; Balenciaga spring/summer 2018; Rachel Whiteread's "Due Porte" (2016), on view at the Tate Britain in London until Jan.
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One of the model units has dazzling colors and patterns, including walls with painted trompe l'oeil paneling, powder-blue ceilings and counter stools, and a purply pink tie-dye rug.
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The procession, which lasted over an hour, was broken down into sections that showcased Gaultier's greatest hits: men in skirts, his beloved Breton stripes, trompe l'oeil, corsetry, underwear-as-outerwear.
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"Standard operating procedure for intimate betrayal" is a military catchphrase that haunts "Allied," a plausible portrait of a midcentury marriage that is also a fantastical piece of trompe-l'oeil storytelling.
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The curtain itself had a playful trompe-l'oeil effect: it had been digitally printed with an image of the rectangle of flaked paint which had been exposed by the theft.
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But perhaps more interesting than its purported moral — that trompe l'oeil is the mark of artistic genius — is the fantasy that has sustained the oft-repeated tale all of these years.
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To assemble her paintings, she has transformed aspects of trompe l'oeil, hard-edged abstraction (the use of masking tape), patterning and repetition, transparency and layering, as ways of assembling her paintings.
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Jimmy Mornet Head pâtissier, Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme Our bûche is a trompe-l'oeil, shaped as a ripe cocoa pod, carved open to reveal the white pulp and cocoa beans inside.
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But his 8-foot-tall trompe l'oeil neon profile is an eye-catching exception — as is its neighbor, a large, packed composition, "Animal Hours," by the British installation artist Helen Marten.
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Some of Mr. Johnson's trompe l'oeil works are there, surprising visitors as they wander the property, but much of the work is by others, with abstract and other genres well represented.
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From the past, Halpert resurrected the Quaker "primitive" Edward Hicks, represented here by an especially impressive, uncluttered "Peaceable Kingdom, " and the American trompe l'oeil artists William Michael Hartnett and John Frederick Peto.
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One can see how her trompe l'oeil technique might stand in part for the "fake" way that societies, through artistic traditions like decorative ceramics, cover up the horrors that made them possible.
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Inside, the opulent building was packed with rich red carpets, gold trompe l'oeil, mirrored walls and long lines of gargantuan chandeliers, in keeping with the maximalist, more-is-more aesthetic of Balmain.
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Encountering a pet goldfinch like the one chained in Fabritius's trompe l'oeil would not have been unusual in the 17th century, when the birds were prized for their chirping songs and cleverness.
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Some have beds crowned with giant canopies of ancient silk damask that Sally has been collecting for decades; many have walls with trompe l'oeil columns that were painted during the 19th century.
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Some of the statements might be written on a sheet of trompe l'oeil paper, while others are done directly on the surface, and still others are partially obscured by drips of paint.
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Occasionally the Age of Enlightenment attire acquired a more contemporary twist, as in the refashioned basics at Yohji Yamamoto or the suit-and-tie trompe l'oeil on corseted silhouettes at Thom Browne.
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Pavel Zoubok combines old and new examples of trompe l'oeil, although 20th-century works triumph, starting with an extended mural of empty bookshelves — using actual wood that looks painted — by Michael Zelehoski.
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Given the general prejudices against naturalism linked to most schools of modern art, Soutine would need to accomplish more "magic" than the static, hackneyed, and by now dissipated traditions of trompe l'oeil verismo.
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The as-yet-untitled commission's tiled appearance is a double trompe l'oeil, because it is composed of printed images from an older Varejão artwork called "Celacanto Provoca Maremoto" ("The Coelacanth Causes a Seaquake").
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The main element here — not entirely successful or exciting, for me — is a surface covering most of the figure that looks like a trompe l'oeil trash bag, cast in bronze and painted black.
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The suite had a marble bathroom, and a high window looking down to the garden; in the room, an elegant chandelier hung from a trompe l'oeil ceiling of blue sky with puffy clouds.
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Many of them, done in graphite and colored pencil, are trompe l'oeil images: sheets of crumpled notebook paper covered with handwritten lists and statements excoriating the art world as a gatekeeping money machine.
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Suzanne Syz, the independent jewelry designer and art collector based in Geneva, presented Her Ben, a trompe l'oeil limited-edition watch — with its face frozen at the classic display time of 10:10.
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The artist, who began making paintings of flat, easily identified motifs (the American flag, targets), moved in the 22006s to trompe l'oeil collagelike compositions of images from other art and his personal mementos.
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The form-fitting pair in question are a $849 design from Versace's Spring 2014 menswear collection, featuring a swirl of black and white stripes with trompe l'oeil gold baroque designs around the outer edges.
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Metallic pleats present an approachable (but still statement-making) manifestation of this new, flowery aesthetic, and they're much less involved than the trompe l'oeil embellishments and comically oversized accessories now synonymous with the brand.
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One can write about Kim's connection to Minimalism, trompe l'oeil painting, and his collapsing together of abstraction and representation, but, in the end, these considerations are lesser than the encounter between viewer and work.
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An Alpine folk art-inspired headboard clashed with a trompe-l'oeil wall rendering of stacked gold bullion — a dated reference to the country's former tax shelter reputation — and made the compact room feel smaller.
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Beneath the cartouche are a compass, a ruler, a palette, and paintbrushes, and his right hand sits on the bottom of the putative frame — a trompe-l'oeil show-off move of the first order.
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A similar sense of theatricality was found in Lucy McKenzie's "Lina Mouton" (2016), an installation featuring Art Deco-style furniture made from stretched canvases with trompe-l'oeil paintings and assembled from cut-out patterns.
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After traveling to the same places he'd visited, she built a small, free-standing room and laboriously painted its walls, in gobsmacking trompe l'oeil, with the museum tickets, snapshots and notes she had accumulated.
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And, speaking of candy, Landon Bailey Higgins devoted an entire series of paintings to Gummy Bears: he rendered their texture with such precision that they looked like trompe l'oeil versions of Jeff Koons's sculptures.
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It involved stripping the building to its skeleton and restoring silk trompe l'oeil paintings on the walls and ceilings of a private theater, as well as the intricate, threaded bamboo marquetry in a reception room.
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Inspired by the art of the Surrealist and Dada movements, Schiaparelli was prolific and provocative with designs like her trompe l'oeil ribbon sweater, butterfly print, and the famous lobster dress, which garnered her worldwide fame.
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The effect produced by the blue LED lights and molds, however, create a trompe l'oeil effect that makes the luminescent installation seem almost virtual from afar, though its physical dimensions are more pronounced closer up.
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Studded with tiny flecks of dried fermented plum, it is wonderful to eat, although you could see trompe l'oeil plating as a small betrayal of the all-natural ethos that animates most of Noma's cooking.
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I didn't really want to part with Jacobs's trompe l'oeil Slip-Ons that emulated the Old Skool, but the thought of living in my first "adult" apartment in the city outweighed my desire to flex.
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Both paintings have the same motifs: a pair of cartoon-like eyes staring into the painting; a curlicue line that can be read as the bottom of a nostril; a pair of lips that can also be read as mountain; a trompe l'oeil image of a ruler; a trompe l'oeil "poster" of the Milky Way's dense swirl of stars, paired with a "poster" of the Big Dipper, which is shown upside down and in reverse, from right to left, with a white line connecting the seven stars.
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The fighters decamped to a smokers' enclosure behind a plate-glass window, its back wall a trompe-l'oeil image of electric-blue waves that made it seem as though they were submerged in a fish tank.
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After finishing the book I went on a winter walk on Wainscott Beach on eastern Long Island and found some marvelous shells that had the appearance of being the most extraordinary trompe l'oeil depictions of shells.
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There's a 1983 Yves Saint Laurent evening dress with an enormous pink bow and a 2017 Moschino dress made to look like a paper doll cutout, with an even more gigantic, two-dimensional trompe l'oeil bow.
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The rose is rendered in an eerie blue which is an inversion of the color of a pink rose and is shifting out of the frame while the surface is covered in trompe l'oeil water droplets.
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The brushwork is feathery, impressionistic, and inconsistent, with some areas barely resolved and others, like the bejeweled gold crown on the figure of Midas — the impassive witness to the execution — refined to a trompe-l'oeil finish.
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Writers contributing to The Suspension of Time compare Dinnerstein's style to the trompe l'oeil still life paintings of the 19th-century American artists John F. Peto and William Harnett, but it is nothing of the sort.
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Look closer, and the faded denim jeans and shirt were actually trompe l'oeil silk; a pair of basket-woven pants, perforated leather; what seemed to be semiprecious stones on a vest, in fact, man-made simulacra.
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While some scoffed at the restaurant's tendency for trompe l'oeil trickery—"everything bagels" made of ice cream and foie gras torchons bleeding from their liquid beetroot hearts—Tong loved the sheer, delirious inventiveness of it all.
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The mixing and faking of architectural and decorative styles — chandeliers, trompe l'oeil marble columns, a gilded mezzanine, and faux Rococo and Baroque paintings — reflects the pastiche in Bronstein's drawings and paintings of real and imagined architecture.
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As a lark, I took a chance on a hooded anorak in a Nantucket red-based Baja print ($228), which is to say, a trompe l'oeil of an actual (and presumably much, much cheaper) Baja hoodie.
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"Swallow" (2013), a larger canvas with globs of pigment perched casually on its frame, includes a trompe l'oeil sheet of paper painted with a diaristic poem that ends with a swallow dipping into the Delaware River.
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The illusion of trompe l'oeil meets 19th and 20th century American architecture and 113st century fabrication techniques, in a new temporary ceiling designed by architect studio FreelandBuck for the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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He spoke of the collection as a Rag & Bone "uniform," which meant shearling parkas and bombers, denim jazzed up with giant trompe l'oeil cuffs, twisted knitwear, split-seamed track pants and clomping, thick-soled boots and loafers.
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Through the work's dimensions, geometric patterns and shapes, as well as its frequent monochromatic colors, Shlian creates a sort of trompe l'oeil effect where the eye is tricked into questioning the true nature of materials and construction.
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Arts | Long Island "Master of Illusion: The Magical Art of Gary Erbe," now on display at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, can provide a delightful summer diversion, especially if you are into contemporary trompe l'oeil.
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In "Trompe L'Oeil," viewers learned exactly why Theresa was using stray hosts to smuggle data out of the park to a satellite owned by Westworld parent company Delos: because Executive Board Director Charlotte Hale told her to.
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A mustard-yellow belted trouser suit with wide lapels and cargo pockets, along with a tiered lilac cape with printed trompe-l'oeil style ocher flowers, were also standouts, bringing color and charm to an overcast Sunday afternoon.
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Jennifer Bolande's plywood-patterned curtains in the gallery's front windows and Sayre Gomez's life-size trompe l'oeil storefront, installed against the back wall, make you uncertain whether you've just stepped into a gallery or out of one.
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Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger's Drawings from the Collection of Ricky Jay was inspired by the Met's own Buchinger, a spectacular calligraphic trompe l'oeil calendar, dated 1717, that entered the collection as part of a friendship album in 2007.
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A painter and sculptor, Mr. Wolfe brought a postmodern sensibility to the venerable tradition of trompe l'oeil, in which a work seeks to trick the eye by lending the illusion of three dimensions to a two-dimensional surface.
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Today, the stunning Baroque building, with an ornate trompe l'oeil ceiling, continues to host a variety of stage and dance performances (including a production of Mozart's comic opera "Le Nozzi de Figaro," set to open early next year).
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Like a personal poetry project, the paintings, drawings and embroidery works of this Brazilian artist, who died from AIDS-related causes in 1993, are filled with meandering lines of text and small images: trompe l'oeil scars, foliage, pictograms.
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She has included an installation about escape artists like Harry Houdini, an explainer on chastity belts and a trompe l'oeil scene of Gramercy Park in Manhattan, a private space that is open only to those who live nearby.
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But their fun house scale — cups, umbrella, and all are each about the size of an ottoman — and slightly abstracted color are enough to put them into a strange virtual territory somewhere between trompe l'oeil and the uncanny valley.
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Hence our own recourse to such clips in this review, but even there, the play of circular bulb-columns, rectangular fixture-canisters, reflection and shadow, and trompe l'oeil backdrops and sleeves painted the color of shadow, continues to confound.
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Incorporating paintings, animated film (3D rendering duplicates the dimensions of that crime scene cafeteria), hand-sewn clothing, hand-made mops (their handles' knot holes are trompe l'oeil), stained glass, one Minkie Pie Love Lock, whatever that would prove to be . . .
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At 12063 W 57 Arts, the work merges with the architecture of the room in a nearly trompe-l'oeil fashion; ambient illumination from a nearby (actual) window washes over the wall from the right, consistent with the photographic light source.
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Unlike a traditional Trompe-L'Oeil painting which tricks the eye into thinking a 2D canvas might be a real 3D space, I do the opposite: I take the 3D world and create the illusion that it is a 2D painting.
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A photograph of an ordinary threshold appears as a painting: it offers a glimpse of an electrifying room next door with an eccentric carpet, but it's a space that appears impossible to enter — like a trompe l'oeil nested within another.
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In terms of outward-facing trends, she culled more ideas from her repertoire — like sneakers paired with ankle-length dresses and relaxed, pinstripe suiting — and introduced fresh ones, too, like trompe l'oeil effects that clashed happily with lingerie-style cover-ups.
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Jones understands this, so he creates pieces that demand attention — a fuzzy blue cocktail number, for example, with a trompe l'oeil cigarette emerging from the top, complete with "smoke" fashioned from wire, or a boater featuring a waving Barbie doll.
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Then there is Gucci, of course; its wickedly headstrong designer Alessandro Michele garnishing a long and lanky pink chemise with a gaudy trompe l'oeil bow, or sending an incongruously racy message by patterning a version of the look in cheetah spots.
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On the third floor of the old school building, its auditorium has been converted into a kind of reading lounge, with the stage intact, comfy furniture, an eclectic library, and a nifty trompe l'oeil depiction of a posh drawing room.
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Mr. Chapelle recounted that a group from Chanel had already come in, lured by the sight of trompe l'oeil art piece — of a Pharrell Williams sneaker designed in collaboration with Chanel and Adidas — carved from a single block of wood.
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Similarly, a room dedicated to illusionistic painting includes trompe l'oeil works by Edward Collier and others of flower studies; these are not only middling, but, crucially, are described as significant only because they were collected by members of the court.
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Yoon has been a makeup artist for four years, and has made a name for herself with her trompe l'oeil looks, where she paints hyperrealistic images on her face that make her blend into the background, or distort her features entirely.
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The book highlights everyday spaces with the most unexpected details: Planes of alabaster, grandiose panels of tufted leather and trompe l'oeil stained glass all feature alongside a myriad of richly hued marbles from across Italy framed in bronze, plaster and terrazzo.
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Silvia Venturini Fendi experimented with traditional men's wear pieces, presenting a collection that consisted of inside-out suiting, high-waisted pinstripe trousers spliced with skirts, reversible outerwear, jackets with trompe l'oeil detailing — and yellow Fendi shopping bags rendered as leather handbags.
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Models in uniform-like looks sat and typed, as more and more opulent ensembles — embroidered gold coats with generous mink trims, for instance — came down the catwalk with dog-shaped handbags and nip-waisted bouclé jackets with trompe l'oeil textures.
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But the vast majority of Mr. Cuomo's political fund-raising has come from big checks, and the event at the St. Regis, held in a room with a trompe l'oeil of the sky on a partly cloudy day, continued that trend.
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That Frankenthaler would go so far as to employ trompe l'oeil — creating the illusion of a natural artifact as the ground for the "abstract projection" of nature — is brain-teasing in the implications it holds for reality and its double.
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With a lot of water and some tactical trompe l'oeil, I was ready to go bright and early the next morning, carefully stepping over the slumbering bodies of my fellow revelers still sleeping off the effects of their national pastime.
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Editors, buyers, and fashion industry followers eagerly await the spectacle every season, whether he's presenting a Willy Wonka-ian crew of flannel-clad garden gnomes, an army of mid-century office drones, or pastel-bouffanted models donned in trompe l'oeil skirt suits.
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Books, trompe l'oeil murals, busts, and the owner's cat and dog reclining at one's feet complete the scene at this quiet and cozy spot that's a favorite amongst intellectuals and tastemakers who seek solace in the deep banquettes and bottles of Bordeaux.
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Inside Addiction, a giant, two-story trompe-l'oeil mural mimics the wall of a New York City brick tenement, while in Krave, the entire floor has been designed to look like an aubergine-colored cosmos, stippled with stars, planets, and wispy nebulae.
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The pieces on display in two rooms stretch from the turn of the century through the 1950s and on to today, with a Campbell's Soup Can dress from 1966-67 and some winking trompe l'oeil 1980s Chloé (plus two gorgeous 1970s Zandra Rhodes).
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Throughout the Simuvac Projects show, Braun's use of trompe l'oeil can only be described as in flagrante, as her forms and surfaces heave and swell, rise like towers out of a sooty mist and cast shadows inside a shallow, locked-down space.
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It includes photographs of doll-scale tableaus made mainly of processed meats; films starring the artists as Rat and Bear in frowzy costumes; more than 160 small, comical clay sculptures representing a harebrained history of the world; and myriad trompe l'oeil sculptures of ordinary objects.
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It includes photographs of doll-scale tableaus made mainly of processed meats; films starring the artists as Rat and Bear in frowzy costumes; more than 2989 small, comical clay sculptures representing a harebrained history of the world; and myriad trompe l'oeil sculptures of ordinary objects.
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It includes photographs of doll-scale tableaus made mainly of processed meats; films starring the artists as Rat and Bear in frowzy costumes; more than 27083 small, comical clay sculptures representing a harebrained history of the world; and myriad trompe l'oeil sculptures of ordinary objects.
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A process she describes as "a semipermanent tattoo where small amounts of pigment are placed under the skin using a sharp and flat handheld tool," administered by an expert, of course, and meant to create a trompe l'oeil effect of having a naturally bushy brow.
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Opening impressions are established with an enormous blown-up mural of the frontispiece engraving from the 1599 Ferrante Imperato Dell'Historia Naturale book and Domenico Remps trompe-l'oeil painting — faux cracked glass and all — of a gluttonous cabinet of curiosities "Scarabattolo" (1690), seemingly bursting its seams.
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It includes photographs of doll-scale tableaus made mainly of processed meats; films starring the artists as Rat and Bear in frowzy costumes; more than 2212 small, comical clay sculptures representing a harebrained history of the world; and myriad trompe l'oeil sculptures of ordinary objects.
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It includes photographs of doll-scale tableaus made mainly of processed meats; films starring the artists as Rat and Bear in frowzy costumes; more than 238 small, comical clay sculptures representing a harebrained history of the world; and myriad trompe l'oeil sculptures of ordinary objects.
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It includes photographs of doll-scale tableaus made mainly of processed meats; films starring the artists as Rat and Bear in frowzy costumes; more than 256 small, comical clay sculptures representing a harebrained history of the world; and myriad trompe l'oeil sculptures of ordinary objects.
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What is most intriguing about the critical history of "The Fulbright Triptych" is the degree to which the experience of the actual painting departs not only from its reproductions, but from its verbal descriptions as well, most markedly in terms of realism and trompe l'oeil.
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In 2002, for example, Winona Ryder attended her shoplifting trial in Los Angeles in what The New York Times called "conservative but very chic outfits," including a Marc Jacobs black dress with a trompe l'oeil Peter Pan collar that evoked a child's school uniform.
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Clunky shapes — camp shirts and Girl Guide shorts; dropped-waist pinafores that stood away from the body — were mixed with banker striped shirting, tailored coats and trousers and vests that had begun as black slates and then were printed with trompe l'oeil creases and cracks.
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On some buildings, intricately carved columns and stone facades have been replaced by clever trompe-l'oeil paint jobs, because a financially destroyed postwar Germany couldn't afford the grand construction projects that had once been routine for the Wittelsbach royal family that ruled over Bavaria.
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He presented a trompe l'oeil spectacle in which a painting appeared to change before viewers' eyes: Different scenes were painted on each side of a near-transparent canvas, and each would be revealed separately, depending on whether the canvas was lit from the front or the back.
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The Scottish artist, based in Brussels, revives a long tradition of trompe-l'oeil painting through exacting depictions of bureaucratic safety regulations on billboards, and the trickery continues in nonfunctional painted "furniture" — a bed, a vanity, a grand desk — whose faux-marble surfaces seem to support illusory objects.
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Fashion Review 19 Photos View Slide Show ' On Monday in the late afternoon, as the breeze blew in off the Hudson, Thom Browne built a trompe l'oeil pool for Palm Beach ladies in the basement of a Chelsea art gallery and blew the dust off fashion week.
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In "Accumulator #20, 503 Colors #B2DAE5, #B4867B, #B2212E2563C," for example, the diptych that opens his first solo show at Marianne Boesky's New York gallery, "Holding Environment," he folded the prints before reshooting to incorporate vivid trompe l'oeil creases, complete with graded shadows, in the final images.
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To celebrate his return, and his rebirth, Gucci Mane booked a night at Atlanta's grandest venue, the Fox Theatre, a former movie palace with an ornate ceiling, decorated with trompe-l'oeil stars, and nearly five thousand seats, all of which sold soon after the concert was announced.
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While many have seen him as a precursor to Pop Art, it seems to me that in his love of American packaging, Davis is instead the heir to the American trompe l'oeil tradition dating back to artists like John F. Peto (993-1907), the one who made it modern.
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On Tuesday, the nearly 300-year-old opera house — a Unesco World Heritage site since 2012 — reopens to the public after a six-year renovation that cost 16073 million euros ($36.6 million) and returned its dazzling ornamental details, murals and trompe l'oeil effects to something approximating their original brilliance.
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Things that are "so Gucci" right now include furry loafers, not furry loafers, dresses in Jordan Almonds colors, sheer maxi-dresses, pussy bows, low-heeled loafers, berets, crochet, intense gold, watercolor roses, pineapples, sweater vests, trompe l'oeil ribbons, a certain shade of pink, rickrack trim, and big glasses frames.
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Thanks to a printing process that uses a soft-to-the-touch coating and multiple levels of embossing, the leaf depicted on the book's cover functions as an engaging bit of tactile trompe l'oeil: It has the same subtle, velvety feel and raised white veins of an actual philodendron.
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The use of trompe-l'oeil also makes this later self-portrait of a piece with Murillo's genre paintings, including the delightful "Two Women at a Window," lent to the Frick from the National Gallery in Washington, in which the principal figure appears to lean out of the picture frame.
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Blouses or shirt-dresses that can be belted to create the illusion of volume are also a good trompe l'oeil trick, especially if they have pretty or dramatic details on the sleeve or the collar that pull the eye up or out to shift focus away from the chest.
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The atelier has helped transform a mohair sweater into a garden of silk trompe-l'oeil roses (Dolce & Gabbana), hand-beaded an entire custom jumpsuit tailored to model Bella Hadid's body (Alexander Wang) and turned a velvet Saint Laurent smoking jacket into a galaxy of embroidered stars for Keith Richards.
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Jennifer Dalton compares the adjectives used by The Times's art critics in their descriptions of work made by men and that by women, while Randall Rosenthal has carved and painted a trompe l'oeil wooden sculpture of The Times Magazine, open to the crossword puzzle, complete with coffee stains.
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Absorbed by such a polyvalent painterly language built upon bravura draughtsmanship and nearly trompe l'oeil renderings of enamel, engraving, arabesques, and jewelry, the visitor to Nahmad might be excused for passing rather quickly over the twelve modern and contemporary paintings set among Moreau's, almost none of which match his layered intensities.
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In the trompe l'oeil painting "Standing on the Frame" (2015), a young woman leans against the edge of a wooden frame — a frame that juts out, levitating on its own plane which seamlessly intersects but is not a part of the large Addis Abba landscape which acts as her backdrop.
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She already has an eclectic variety, with a brightly colored circular depiction of the sun rising over the ocean on her forearm, a trompe l'oeil charm bracelet on her wrist, a horseshoe on her ribcage with the words "Lucky You," and a detailed illustration of a lamb lower on her back.
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It was all art, of course — the rubble handmade by the Swiss artists Fischli/Weiss, the box an objet from the New Museum's gift shop, and the mousetrap, one of several trompe l'oeil pieces by Doug Padgett, whose stopped clock and faux light switch also trip up Mr. Waters regularly.
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I know vertical stripes (like those on the Argentina home jersey) are supposed to be slimming (the shaded sides of Mexico's home jersey have a similar trompe l'oeil effect), while horizontal stripes create a different effect, but I think the zigzags of Nigeria could actually be useful in wearability terms.
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In the early 1800s, in New England particularly, traveling stencil artisans went from village to village, using oiled paper cutouts of primitive stars, pineapples and even trompe l'oeil rug designs, applying them with linseed oil or milk-based pigment paint in colors like Prussian blue, lead chromite yellow and ocher brown.
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Karl Lagerfeld had recreated his ateliers, down to the rolls of fabric, dressmakers' dummies, patterns and pins, the better to demonstrate the reality — and human toil — behind the reconfigured tweed suiting (actually trompe l'oeil embroidery), shoulders extended and flattened into two dimensions without internal structure, and culottes swishing about midcalf, on his runway.
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Self's body of work, called "Street Scenes," is a series of eight paintings with trompe l'oeil brick walls that coalesce to form one scene — a narrative continuation of "Bodega Run," currently up at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, her garishly lit installation of sculptural paintings depicting women in a neighborhood corner store.
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This was especially impressive because the store has a lot of densely packed ground to cover: The person who inquired whether I wanted to try the baby blue Corneliani sport coat with zip-in trompe l'oeil vest ($1,395) was different from the person who asked if I needed help navigating the Juun.
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Offered in a multitude of fabrics and styles (ruched, draped, beatnik black knit), they appeared as trompe l'oeil bustier tops in 1950s frocks paired with those long full skirts, most often fabricated from technical jacquard or taffeta, so while they looked heavy they were light enough to practically float around the body.
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I was as pleased to try a marbled medallion of Mangalitsa pork collar, as tender and shaggy as corned beef and plated with a tart, crimson umeboshi-plum purée, as I was to revisit the Arctic Bird's Nest dessert, a dramatic trompe-l'oeil featuring white-chocolate eggs with sea-buckthorn-curd yolks.
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Like the 34-year-old chef's million and a half other followers on Instagram, I knew that when I cut them, their trompe l'oeil shells would break with a crisp snap, and there'd be a layer of cream and a tumble of fruit — cooked and jammed — sliced in different sizes, offering different textures.
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In the 2009 "Night Studio" (the title is from Guston), at the New Museum, the scene of two scantily clad women on a chaise is flanked by stacks of monographs, rendered with trompe l'oeil accuracy, on Picasso, Goya, Bruegel, Kirchner and Rousseau, along with Peter Doig and Nicola Tyson, who are Ms. Eisenman's contemporaries.
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And that became the basis of a trompe l'oeil collection of classic Moschino-isms — little black suits with gold chains draped at the hip and throat, leather biker jackets, a host of bowed and beaded taffeta party dresses — all silk-screened on the front and sporting rectangular white tabs at the arms, shoulders and side.
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On Moda Operandi's Vote 2018 trunk show, where a variety of the tees priced from $50 (for an Edie Parker style with trompe l'oeil pins) to $195 (for Brandon Maxwell's design with a red "vote" over the left breast and a cowboy hat in place of the "o"), all proceeds go to Rock the Vote.
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From the 1990s on, following the lead of Jasper Johns's famous trompe l'oeil painted bronze sculpture "Savarin Can With Brushes" (1960), Fischli and Weiss concentrated on replicating in painted polyurethane foam all the kinds of objects populating their studio: paint buckets, shopping bags, cassette tapes, bottles of all sorts, electric tools, tables, chairs, pedestals and much more.
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And it has been the province of Thom Browne, who, 10 years after he first came to Europe to show his shrunken men's suiting at the Pitti trade show in Florence, doubled down on his twin trademarks (the prepster in the gray flannel suit; trompe l'oeil dressing) by creating a self-reflexive conversation between the two.
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Like love for a 2510s Helmut Lang collared sweater that makes me feel like autumnal Meg Ryan ($2229) — I bought it, though; sorry — or a 22862 Comme des Garçons skirt with orange and pink trompe l'oeil starfish ($140) or a mesh Miu Miu top from spring 2000 ($70) that truly might have been exhibited at the Met in 2012.
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Thom Browne designed a collection inspired by 18th-century French gardens as only he could: Seersucker blazers and ties were paired with short crinoline cages; skirts swung from the hips, suspended from tricolor ribbons; robes à la polonaise appeared to be made from piles of other garments, or completely trompe l'oeil; veils covered Marie Antoinette worthy-wigs.
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This is the terrazzo extended universe, which includes real terrazzo as well as flat, trompe l'oeil versions of the same: breezy Madewell dresses and leather luggage tags in terrazzo prints, terrazzo adhesive film available on Amazon, terrazzo Target throw blankets, terrazzo shower speakers from Asos, Make Beauty terrazzo eyeshadow and bronzer, and even a terrazzo Spalding basketball sold at Urban Outfitters.
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Of no precise species (the pout suggests macaque, the tail langur), he appears in a trompe l'oeil tracery of faux windows in a 16-foot-long and 10-foot-high mural — the first sight to greet visitors walking into the flat-roofed contemporary house built in accordance with the Hindu principles of Vastu Shastra, which strives for an alignment with the natural elements.
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Daniel Roseberry's sophomore Schiaparelli couture leaned a little too heavily into the traditional surreal tropes of the house, including winking eyes and trompe l'oeil candelabra, that were great in slouchy trouser suits and gowns that provided their own cloud cover, but off the mark entirely in fake tan lines and awning-striped bathing suit gowns emerging from seas of hot pink skirts.
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Pink was a dominant color, as seen on Felicity Jones, doing a kind of sexy Jane Eyre impersonation in trompe l'oeil Gucci, and Carrie Underwood, in a woman-as-rose top; so was yellow (Natalie Portman's maternity Prada, '60s-inspired and very Jackie); and yet more gold on Naomie Harris in an Armani column and Sarah Paulson in Marc Jacobs.
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When I visited the Capitol on my sixth stop of 52, teams of painters were recreating the original trompe l'oeil wallpaper, others were restoring the wooden banisters of the viewing deck and, in general, bringing the entire section of the building back to its single-room, former glory in time for July 10 when Wyoming will celebrate 129 years of statehood.
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Designed principally by the French-born architect Ollivier J. Vinour, it is a quarter-million-square-foot profusion of domes, turrets, minarets, Moorish archways, Oriental carpets, lush draperies, Egyptian bas-relief, trompe l'oeil paintings, fountains, elaborate lighting fixtures, stained glass, gold leaf, tile and gracious banisters, which Mr. Patten, in the dead of night, would occasionally slide down for the sheer joy of it.
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He was a serious student of fashion, whose preoccupations and obsessions were evident from his first collections: With tailoring (he bucked the '80s trend for giant shoulders and developed his own narrow shoulder line instead), with proportion (caroming between tracing the body and exaggerating it under oversize designs), with color, with construction (his use of darts, seaming, exposed linings, raw seams), with trompe l'oeil.
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And yet Frankenthaler did not intend these prints to be mistaken for paintings, making a point to emphasize the wood grain in the base layer of a number of works, including the series, "Tales of Genji" (1998), "Madame Butterfly," and the intensely red, blue, and purple "Japanese Maple" (2005) — going so far as to create trompe l'oeil wood grain where the natural impressions weren't visible enough.
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Full Stop (2004-2005) — which debuted to considerable acclaim at Caren Golden Gallery in New York in 2005, and has been exhibited several times since (most recently in 2014 at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio) — is an elaborate, trompe l'oeil, right-side-up cardboard rendition of an anonymous American artist's post-World War II studio (but one that includes facsimile versions of many famous paintings).
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One neighbor keeps a coop of racing pigeons — homing birds trained to fly in timed competitions (a bygone pastime of old Brooklyn) — on the roof, and when one of the building's older tenants died about 15 years ago, it was revealed that she had painted every surface of her small apartment to resemble a traditional Polish dacha, complete with trompe l'oeil wooden shutters and a mural of dancing deer.
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And though this occasionally gets lost in the drive to perfume marketing — as it seemed to do at Jean Paul Gaultier, whose initial razor-sharp understated tailleurs quickly gave way to trompe l'oeil '80s denim (actually composed of hundreds of strips of ribbon), corset belts and muscle tees, and then an entire botanic garden's worth of daisy, poppy and sunflower prints — it is the operating principle of the couture.
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Johansson has a pair of interlocking circles on her inner ankle with the letter A, a brightly colored circle on her forearm featuring the sun and a star rising on the horizon over the ocean, a trompe l'oeil bracelet around her right wrist she got while filming The Avengers with a charm that reads "I Heart New York," and a horseshoe on her ribcage that says "Lucky You" designed by famed tattoo artist, Fuzi Uvtpk.
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Between 1921 and 1928, when he went to Paris for the first time, he did discrete bodies of work in which he pushed the relationship between subject matter and formal concerns as far as he could, moving from the punctilious legibility, as in his trompe l'oeil renderings of cigarette packs, to his series of "egg beaters," in which he turned his subject matter into interlocking and overlapping planes of flatly painted color set within an ambiguous space.
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Other posts are things I've seen or recalled: photos of book-reading gargoyles; a collection of "Alice in Wonderland" and "1984" covers; a GIF of a giant rotating sculpture in the shape of Kafka's head; a series of book-themed trompe l'oeil street murals; a video clip of the famous bookstore scene with Humphrey Bogart in "The Big Sleep"; photos of offbeat libraries — the traveling donkey library, the floating boat library, the vending machine library, and so on.
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Clinch has done something remarkable in "Marley," not merely offering a parergon to Dickens's little masterpiece, imagining the soil out of which the action of "A Christmas Carol" grows, but creating a free-standing dystopian universe, a hideous vision of nascent capitalism in which nothing is real and every transaction is a fraud issuing from the brain of a master forger, who by the end has reduced even his own life, quite literally, to a trompe l'oeil.
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So while it may not be a Schiaparelli collection without a lobster (this time embroidered in red beads on the bib of white leather motorcycle overalls) and a few trompe l'oeil looks — faux necklaces embroidered on sheer skirts and Picasso guitars forming the lapels of squared-off jackets paired with full tulle skirts — they were a lot less interesting than a series of light-as-air silk mousseline and jersey columns suspended from shoulders and floating around legs.
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There were also some unexpected salty details, hinting perhaps at what is to come: trompe l'oeil swimsuits seamed into the front of coats and jackets, instead of lapels, for no apparent reason (they were supposed to be a reference to the designers' backgrounds, but since most people don't know them, it really served only as an inside joke); arms on jackets cut to look as if the shoulder blades were being pulled together in a model walk (that idea worked pretty well).
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In the exhibition, to show transitions at work, a black lace and silk dress by Chanel, circa 1926, is next to a 1986 black silk crepe evening dress with embroidered trompe l'oeil jewelry by Karl Lagerfeld, one of Chanel's successors; and Pierre Balmain's spring 1954 ladylike Psyche haute couture dress in embroidered lace and silk satin is partnered with a fiercely modern fall 2013 evening dress in beaded black and white raffia and rhinestones by his current successor, Olivier Rousteing.
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Each perspective of the piece, believed to be made in either Spain or Naples by an unknown artist, is digitized online at Art UK, a newly launched initiative from the former Public Catalogue Foundation in collaboration with the BBC to host images from hundreds of public collections in the UK. The painting is one of over 1,200 artworks available from the Wellcome Library, which include large holdings on medical history, and also curiosities like this religious trompe l'oeil, purchased by Henry S. Wellcome himself.
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One can imagine him sitting in the front row of Mr. Browne's show as models in white face and wearing outsized boiler suits paraded onto a set resembling a beach of black sand, centered on a palm tree that looked post-apocalypse and — to the ominous opening bars of John Williams's score from "Jaws" — shimmied out of those suits, revealing themselves to be wearing, say, a trompe l'oeil all-in-one wet suit with a red nylon slicker high-armhole Chesterfield overcoat, a white dyed mohair jacket and white pin-cord low-rise skinny trousers.
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