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APELLES -- early Hellenistic Greek painter whose work was held in such high esteem by ancient writers on art that he continues to be regarded, even though none of his work survives as the greatest painter of antiquity. Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Ilona Kramer Trompe-l'oeil The idea of Trompe-L'Oeil appeals to us now as well when the abstract frameworks of the obsolete twentieth century modernism are hopelessly and rapidly rusting. In spite of all the aesthetical warnings and fossilizations occurred in the course of the last 2.5 thousand years, we don’t find it impossible to combine nowadays that ancient naiveté of the task with keen observation, skill and taking all those past centuries into account. One more link connecting us with Apelles is our belief that everything within the trompe-l’oeil task is not only possible but also has to be achieved within the chosen painting technique. And we, the legitimate successors of the ancient masters who managed to deceive birds and fellow artists*, can easily turn any space into any of Your dreams – morning in the jungles, noon in the Alhambra seraglio, sunset above Lac Léman or simply Your own profile in a Renaissance medallion . *See Plinius Sr. of Zeuxis and others and mark that Apelles was deemed the best (Naturalis Historia; XXV, 61-81)
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TROMPE-L’OEIL -- (French: "deceive the eye"), in painting, the representation of an object with such verisimilitude as to deceive the viewer concerning the material reality of the object. This idea appealed to the ancient Greeks who were newly emancipated from the conventional stylizations of earlier art. Encyclopedia Britannica
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