painting style (decoration) with a twist

Wook

I remember seeing something on the net or in a book couple of years ago that gave you examples of artist painting the outsides of a building into an effect that gave you an vision of something that wasnt really there... (example: just a brick wall painted over with windows and pots and plants) The artists has done this so well that the walls of the building did look very real.

Now i have completly forgotten the name of the style but do remember that it had a french name..could anyone help me tracing this back ?

Thanks !

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Matte painting?

That's a term used form films often when you've a photo background with things painted onto it.

check out www.goodbrush.com for examples.

- Kevin

Wook

very similar (-Matte- although this is very cool indeed)
but i do believe it has a french name and is more towards houses and interiours.

It could for example give the inside of your living room and complete roman feel with the pilons and so on..thinking your room to be much bigger..i believe you can compare it to the sixteenth chappel which if you stand in the right spot can give you a different dimension inside this building..

DadaKopf

You mean like murals?

Monkey

the term for objects that are painted so realistically that they appear to be real is tromp d'oeil I believe. The term applies to more than just murals and more than just decorative work.

musashidan

It is indeed trompe l'oeil.which literally means "trick of the eye"
It's a method of visual deception,especially in paintings,whereby
objects are rendered in such fine detail that the mind is fooled
into seeing what the artist intends it to see.

Wook

thats it !!!
great stuff, thanks !