Word: oeil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traveled extensively in Europe, acquiring a glossy, Continental technique, became highly successful and portrayed the likes of Dolley Madison and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Raphaelle, a seeming failure, had drunk himself to death by 1825, at the age of 51. Only in this century have his hypnotic trompe-l'oeil still lifes belatedly captured the public...
TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. This lively tale of espionage is only trompe I'oeil; behind it flows the broad seriocomic vein that is the source of all of Burgess...
Look's stunt, the result of 13 years' research, constitutes the latest effort to translate the real world of three dimensions into the picture world of two. Artists have employed trompe I'oeil three-dimensional techniques for centuries. But true success for photographers awaited the invention of the stereopticon camera in the 19th century, which took two pictures of the same subject through lenses that were separated like a pair of human eyes. When the viewer saw each picture separately, through separate lenses, his brain automatically supplied the missing dimension of depth...
...Touch" signs beside the paintings in the gallery were put up to discourage visitors who are sure that some of Bohrod's realism is collage. Though he denies being a trompe l'oeil painter, Bohrod stands as an eye-fool tower of strength to other long-thwarted realists. To jeers of "get a camera," Bohrod replies that the camera is a wonderful eye, but it has no guiding brain, heart or soul...
...exploiting almost all the cinema's techniques of trompe l'oeil, a daring special effects man named Ray Harryhausen has produced a celluloid illusion in which men and monsters, giants and midgets merge without a seam. Unfortunately, though, there are ragged lines in the script-which might be described as accelerated Swift. The dean's fans will, for instance, get a nasty turn when they discover that Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews) has a scantily clad girl friend (June Thorburn). And they may feel even worse when the hero tells her, in ponderous Jungian prose, that "the giants...