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...field borrowed heavily from techniques found in Cubist paintings and Renaissance trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") art, and it would eventually enlist the help of artists like Grant Wood and Jacques Villon, both of whom served as camoufleurs during wartime. When World War II broke out, applications from painters, sculptors, even ad men flooded Fort Belvoir, Va., the military's headquarters for camouflage development. "There must be something intriguing about the word 'camouflage,' " an officer told TIME in 1942 before cautioning, "There is no room for the esthetic color expert, or for any man who can't march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Camouflage | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...pictures tell the truth? Or is the reality revealed by photographs another seductive deceiver, a trick the mind plays on the eye, like the persistence-of-vision trompe l'oeil that makes the consecutive images clicking through a movie projector at 24 frames per second seem like one continuous moving image. Antonioni, true to his creed, won't say - unless we are to take Blowup's last shot as the answer to this larger question. Thomas is seen from a distance alone on a green field. And then he disappears, as Anna had in L'Avventura. This is the anticonjuror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Antonioni Blew Up the Movies | 8/5/2007 | See Source »

...Martin Margiela's wit were a bit more conspicuous his shows would have the kind of appeal they deserve. He played with the idea of being dressed and undressed-using nude mesh to trompe l'oeil effect on slinky silk jersey dresses and tailored tuxedos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Fun With Formality | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

...while he was still a student here, the bottom, several years later. If you look up, above the ticket window and the marquee, you will see what appears to be the façade of a Beaux-art style theater. Winer is an expert of trompe l’oeil, a style of painting which tries to fool the eye into thinking it is real. Winer has painted murals all around Boston, including one on Newbury Street of another old-fashioned façade of a café or hotel with crowds of people streaming...

Author: By Cara B. Eisenpress, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tales of Public Art | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...deliberation. As an alternative, he came up with his "paranoiac-critical" method, which was an attempt to enter a kind of delirium while keeping a part of the mind detached, alert to the imperatives of the rational world. Whatever that meant, it led him to the dazzling trompe l'oeil illusionism of Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, from 1938, which reads simultaneously as a landscape, a dog in profile, a human face and a tabletop with a fruit bowl holding a heap of pears. This is a canvas in which the eye leads the mind down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dali Goes to Rehab | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

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