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Paesaggi e Trompe L'oeil
A French term literally meaning "trick the eye." Sometimes called illusionism, it's a style of painting which gives the appearance of three-dimensional, or photographic realism. It flourished from the Renaissance onward. The discovery of linear perspective in fifteenth-century Italy and advancements in the science of optics in the seventeenth-century Netherlands enabled artists to render object and spaces with eye-fooling exactitude. Both playful and intellectually serious, trompe artists toy with spectators' seeing to raise questions about the nature of art and perception. Trompe-l'œil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist, instead of being mere, two-dimensional paintings.
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I romantici canali di Venezia
Mural a very large image,
such as a painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling.
Using techniques in trompe l'oeil and faux finishing
Art Effects can create hand painted wall murals
that will make an impact on whoever enters a room.
Follow the link below to see many of
Art Effects' painted murals using trompe l'oeil,
faux finishes with unique effects and other illusions with art.
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Alma Tadema
Alma- Tadema's works are remarkable for the way in which flowers, textures and hard reflecting substances, like metals, pottery, and especially marble, are painted - indeed. Frescoes shows much of the fine execution and brilliant colour of the old Dutch masters. By the human interest with which imbues all scenes from ancient life brings them within the scope of modern feeling, and charms us with gentle sentiment and playfulness..
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L'indimenticabile Pompei
The panels of the fresco appear to show a series of consecutive events, and their interpretation is much debated. Most commonly, it is thought that the fresco illustrates the initiation of a woman into the secret rites of Dionysus, and it is this theory that gave rise to the name of the Villa of the Mysteries. In the scene pictured here, the initiate is flogged, while another woman dances beside her..
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Arte Moderna
Modern art refers to the then new approach to art which placed emphasis on representing emotions, themes, and various abstractions. Artists experimented with new ways of seeing, with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art, often moving further toward abstraction.
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