Trompe Thesis

A collection of images and quotes relating to my MA thesis on trompe l'oeil and Vik Muniz's Verso series.

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

https://artsy.net/artwork/vik-muniz-verso-la-gioconda-after-leonardo-da-vinci

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Laurie Lambrecht Roy on Ladder, 1994

Archival Pigment Print, Printed in 2011 24 x 24”

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Vik Muniz - Pictures of Anything

 Yoav Bezaleli

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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

http://priscillabriggs.com/section/210240_Making_Mona_Lisa.html

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Kaz Oshiro, Tailgate (TO) and Tailgate (YT), 2006.

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Doug and Mike Starn, Double Rembrandt with Steps, 1987

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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)

Signed, titled and dated "I Am What I Read, Vik Muniz 1989" on the reverse of the backing board.

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Yong Ho Ji, 2007, Hammerhead Shark, used tire, resin, wood, 116 x 53 x 56”

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Optical illusion Dalmation, once you see it it's hard to unsee it. 1997, Action Photo, After Namuth photographing Jackson Pollock, cibachrome print, 62 x 48” 

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“I see a strange parallel within current history. Photographs are now ubiquitous and seem to have developed along with market needs only to serve as a parallel reality, which witnesses the quality of the goods and lifestyles they portray. However, not unlike painting in the 1830′s, the medium seems to have exhausted, through overuse, its philosophical meaning.”

Vik Muniz

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

http://vikmuniz.net/library/interview-with-vik-muniz-and-danilo-eccher-director-of-the-museum-of-contemporary-art-rome-august-2003

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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)

http://www.concordmonitor.com/news/nation/world/10551990-95/mass-colleges-man-in-undies-sculpture-causes-stir

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Photos from the Walker Art Center website of the exhibition Lifelike - http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2012/lifelike

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Artist

Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845)  

Description

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

Date1812

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"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."

-http://gavinturk.com/artworks/image/82/

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SMK TV: The Perspective Chamber

 Statens Museum for Kunst

Here is link for version with English subtitles - http://www.artbabble.org/video/smk/smk-tv-perspective-chamber

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

 NationalGalleryDK