Trompe-l'œil

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Trompe-l'œil (French for 'deceive the eye'; tromp-LOY; French: [tʁɔ̃p lœj] ) is an artistic technique that creates a highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Trompe-l'œil, which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real. Forced perspective is a related illusion in architecture, and Op art is a modern style mostly dealing with geometric patterns. Trompe-l'œil has also been used as a term for analogous illusions and deceptions in literature, including those which create a frustrated interpretive expectation or mirror a character's experience through literary structure.

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