Trompe l’oeilBy: Cheyanne Nicol

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Trompe l’oeil-is an art technique involving realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

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This story originated in ancient Greece:Two painters were rivals in a contest. Each would try to make a picture that produced a more perfect illusion of the real world. One, named Zeuxis [ZOO-ziss], painted a likeness of grapes so natural that birds flew down to peck at them. Then his opponent, Parrhasius [pahr-HAY-zee-us] brought in his picture covered in a cloth. Reaching out to lift the curtain, Zeuxis was stunned to discover he had lost the contest. What had appeared to be a cloth was in reality his rival's painting.

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