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The second most depressing thing about this summer at the movies was seeing that warmed-over rehash The Hangover II – a triumph of trompe-l'oeil marketing over substance – made $580m worldwide.
The Hangover II, Final Destination 5: will the summer of sequels never end? 2011
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Urban prankster and trompe-l œil street artist and Dan Witz has been adding more hyper-real paintings to his mosh pit series.
This Is a Painting of a Mosh Pit -- ANIMAL animalnewyork.com 2010
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Sculptor Robert Lobe (b. 1945) may not have the sensitivity of a Japanese gardener (his blunt forms are equally indebted to stage design, the art of trompe-l'oeil and the sculpture of David Smith), but his three hammered aluminum repoussé sculptures—placed in and around Lullwater near the Boathouse in Prospect Park—wed Eastern and Western sensibilities.
Of a Decade and a Dollar Lance Esplund 2011
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For his own signature work, Thomas Demand builds and photographs intricate, small-scale, trompe-l'oeil models.
Outside-the-Box Thinking Starts From the Inside Lance Esplund 2011
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For its first hotel project in Paris, Maison Martin Margiela creates a theatrical environment where realty and trompe-l'oeil are mixing together.
Evelyne Politanoff: La Maison Champs-Elysees by Maison Martin Margiela Evelyne Politanoff 2011
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Simone Falcetta Benan's "Investment Bankers" collection includes this gray trompe-l'oeil print suit.
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For its first hotel project in Paris, Maison Martin Margiela creates a theatrical environment where realty and trompe-l'oeil are mixing together.
Evelyne Politanoff: La Maison Champs-Elysees by Maison Martin Margiela Evelyne Politanoff 2011
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Still, the Army Art Collection grew in size and stature in 1960 when Time-Life editor Henry Luce presented more than 1,000 original World War II-era pieces to the Army, including works by trompe-l ' oeil still-life artist Aaron Bohrod and Reginald Marsh, the Paris-born artist whose depictions of life at war are as memorable as his piec es depicting life in New York City.
Soldiers Armed With Pencils and Paint Mark Yost 2010
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At its best, this approach produces queasy, trompe-l'oeil immediacy.
NYT > Home Page By A. O. SCOTT 2012
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More complicated pieces, like the iconic trompe-l'oeil leopard skin gown made for Jean Paul Gaultier in 1998, require upward of 500.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By JENNY BARCHFIELD 2011
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