Trompe-l'œil Still Life- Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, oil on canvas (1664)
Trompe-l'œil Still Life- Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, oil on canvas (1664)
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I like that there's a 2000 year old style of artwork which is just historically trolling people with pictures.
"Jan, prithee fetch my giant comb from the random selection of objects I have strapp'd to the wall over there"
"Of course, Samuel! But... what? I cannot grasp the giant comb, it is flat... these objects are all flat"
"Lol"
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Wut
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The style of work (which had existed much longer, but was named "Trompe-l'œil" a few hundred years ago, French for "Deceive the eye") is a style of realistic painting intended to trick the viewer into thinking it's a real object/room/space.
If you owned one of these in your house, you could troll everyone who visited by asking them to go through the fake door, open the fake curtain, pick up the fake object on the fake table etc, whilst you sat giggling in the corner waiting for them to realise it was merely a painting.
The fact that the room may only be dimly lit by candle or gas/paraffin lamp would help with your deception.
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