Peninsula Gallery

Located at 520 E. Savannah Road. This one fooled everyone but Deena Pers. She knew that this
was not a real fountain, but a trompe d'oeil wall fountain!

OK, I didn't know what a trompe d'oeil was, so I Google'd it, and here is what I found:

trompe l'oeil - A French term literally meaning "trick the eye." Sometimes called illusionism, it's a style of painting which gives the appearance of three-dimensional, or photographic realism. It flourished from the Renaissance onward. The discovery of linear perspective in fifteenth-century Italy and advancements in the science of optics in the seventeenth-century Netherlands enabled artists to render object and spaces with eye-fooling exactitude. Both playful and intellectually serious, trompe artists toy with spectators' seeing to raise questions about the nature of art and perception.

This story originated in ancient Greece:

Two painters were rivals in a contest. Each would try to make a picture that produced a more perfect illusion of the real world. One, named Zeuxis [ZOO-ziss], painted a likeness of grapes so natural that birds flew down to peck at them. Then his opponent, Parrhasius [pahr-HAY-zee-us] brought in his picture covered in a cloth. Reaching out to lift the curtain, Zeuxis was stunned to discover he had lost the contest. What had appeared to be a cloth was in reality his rival's painting.

Julian Beever is famous for his sidewalk art work. Click Here for examples!

BUT...... my favorite trompe d'oeil has to be this one ! You have to take a look.

I promise! more information is coming on Peninsula Gallery, I just talked to the owner(s) and they are preparing a history
of the gallery for us to read. Until then, I hope you enjoyed this information.

Good luck on this week's contest!

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