Trompe Thesis

Vik MunizVerso: La Gioconda, after Leonardo da Vinci, 2012

Vik Muniz - Pictures of Anything

Priscilla Briggs took photographs of Chinese workers who paint over photographs for customers - often customers are interested in well known images such as Starry Night or the Mona Lisa. She then sent the photographs to the painters to be painted over. 

Painter #3 (Zhong Haibo)

2010

Oil Painting

54”H X 36”W

Vik Muniz

I Am What I Read, 1989

gelatin silver print in artist's frame

43 1/2 x 24 x 2 3/4 in. (110.5 x 61 x 7 cm)

Vik Muniz

Interview with Vik Muniz and Danilo Eccher, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, August 2003.

A statue of a man sleepwalking in his underpants is surrounded by snow on the campus of Wellesley College, in Wellesley, Mass., Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. The sculpture entitled "Sleepwalker" is part of an exhibit by sculptor Tony Matelli at the college's Davis Museum. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Artist

Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845)  

Description

Français : Trompe l'œil au crucifix en ivoire et en bois

"GAVIN TURKS 9” ROLLER IN BRONZE

Roller, bronze powder, glue & paint in glass top vitrine 1995

A paint roller made to look like bronze and displayed in a glass vitrine.  Having recognized white emulsion paint as the background canvas – the theatre backdrop of contemporary art – the Artist then put his mind to the tool that is used to apply the paint. The first piece was a wooden museum vitrine made in 1995 called ‘Paint, Two Rollers and a Brush’. This was a homage to the cultural significance or archeological importance of the gallery decorator and his tools. Displayed in the cabinet were several used objects straight out of the recently repainted gallery exactly as their title suggests. They are fresh and curious in their isolation. Looking at them through the imaginary eyes of an alien they appear angular and precise. Specialised tools for a specialized job. The most angular and specialized of all is the paint roller. A bent and twisted mark-making tool that covers a wall in white faster than you can blink. Cast in bronze – the traditional material of ‘Great Sculpture’ – the tool then becomes heavy and significant, instead of light and useful, allowing the viewer to study the detail of the everyday object: the tufts of the sheepskin roller, the ingeniously designed bent handle."

SMK TV: The Perspective Chamber

 Statens Museum for Kunst

Gijsbrechts' "Trompe l'oeil with Studio Wall and Vanitas Still Life" - a researcher's view