Wasn't one of the first companies of the Peinture to be reproduced initially on walls, then fabrics, images of our environment? This figuration led to laws of perspective and developed a pictorial technicality which remains one of the great directions of Article.

Play of seduction and confusion of the spectator, the trompe-l'oeil carried very obviously its choice more readily worms of the inanimate or static subjects.

The field of trompe-l'oeil is not limited only to the table; when it exceeds the framework of it, it invades the entire wall and becomes Mural. Architecture is then illustrated there according to the laws of the prospect for the spectator; it also can, in a seizing illusion, being a true architectural trompe-l'oeil.

Despite everything let us not confuse effective fraud and very realistic Représentation pictorial: An object which leaves the framework and paints on the edge of the table is often a trompe-l'oeil intended to show that the remainder of the table is not one (See the writings of Daniel Arasse: the Detail, for a history brought closer to painting ), a sight in prospect within a framework is a representation, a prospect painted in the decoration to even prolong reality, a trompe-l'oeil of it, like the mouldings and windows decorating the Italian frontages with the Ligurie.

The table in trompe-l'oeil

Illusion of perception

The technique of the painter is measured with a convincing and disconcerting representation of reality. And to add to made pictorial, the painter of trompe-l'oeil regulates the position of the table: the height of fixing of the table on the wall is adjusted according to the glance of the spectator. The distance to the table is it also essential, the perspective construction of the table depends on it.

The play of the shade and the light will confirm the accuracy of the colors, making relevant the representation of objects. Their presence is so misleading that they seem to belong to the real space of the spectator. Truths objects? This truth of trompe-l'oeil, patiently and skilfully manufactured is an art of the forgery, pretense, trick of the color and exact drawing. The shade is queen who models volumes and the reliefs and answers her accomplice the light. The curiosity of the spectator is pricked with this bet of the trompe-l'oeil which one leaves conquered, but not deceives. This wink with the “Peeping Tom” of the table gives the limit well of it.

The wink and the humor which very often accompany trompe-l'oeil are elegance. The distance founded the point of view, the approach of the table will reveal the stratagem: it is only about painting but art played its part.

Decoration in trompe-l'oeil

Trompe-l'oeil excelled in the dead natural , the Chantourné S, the Grisaille S of low-reliefs, the racks, the false executives, the false objects, the tops of door, fronts of chimneys, fronts of fire.

In decoration, trompe-l'oeil attempts to imitate the matters, wood, marble, equipment of stone being based with architecture.

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