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Originally Posted by Marina Dieul
The funny thing when I was painting some trompe l'oeil is that even the best full size photo will never fool you, and to reproduce exactly this photo with paint either.
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Marina,
I think this observation about the trompe l'oeil visual phenomenon is brilliant. The difference between the photo image and the trompe l'oeil artwork is what Mark Twain might have said was the difference between a lightning bug and lightning. (He actually said it about the right word and the almost right word.)
It's so very difficult to try to "say" what's missing in the photo that one could see by working from the object or subject itself, and this is the perfect example. As you suggested, no eye is "fooled" by the photograph. That magical quality is added by the observant artist who can accurately translate those observations to the canvas or paper.
It is that deft translation of the actually observed that distinguishes both the process and the product. It may be difficult to articulate the distinction, but we know it when we see it.
Thanks for lending that example to this particular discussion.