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[ adjective ] creating the illusion of seeing reality

Synonyms

trompe-l'oeil

Examples

"the visual deception of trompe-l'oeil art"

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

In later collages of both masters , a variety of extraneous materials are used , sometimes in the same work , and almost always in_conjunction_with every other eye-deceiving and eye-undeceiving device they can think_of .

Related terms

unreal

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