Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A style of painting that is intended to give a convincing illusion of reality.
- noun A painting or effect created in this style.
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- noun uncountable A
genre ofstill life painting that exploits humanvision to create theillusion that thesubject of the painting is real. - noun countable A painting of this kind.
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- noun a painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French trompe l'œil : trompe, third person sing. present tense of tromper, to deceive + le, the + œil, eye.]
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From the French trompe-l’œil ("trompe l’oeil", literally "deceives the eye"), from trompe (“deceives”, the third-person singular indicative simple present form of tromper, “to deceive”) + l’ (“t’”, the prevocalic form of le, “the”) + œil ("eye").
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whichbe commented on the word 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. (From ArtLex)
June 5, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word trompe l'oeil
See also Trompe-l'œil.
October 23, 2008
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