Category: Trompe l’oeil

Movin’ on Up: Trompe L’oeil in ‘Staircase Group’

Perhaps today, you’ve come to admire paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As you walk down a hallway, you see two boys walking up a stairway, and you want to follow. You take the first step up. Then you realize you’ll get nowhere on this staircase. You almost bump your nose against “Staircase Group…


Trompe L’oeil: The Delightful Art of Deception

Japanese painter Kazuo Torigoe creates incredible oil paintings on copper that make you wonder what in the painting is real.  On Torigoe’s website, lilies and hydrangeas seem to outgrow their frames. Luscious plums, apples, and two halves of a ripe fig look so appetizing that they make your mouth water.  Some of his paintings contain…