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    Magicians and painters have to trick our eyes to make us see what they want us to see. What is the specific name of a certain trick used by both a modern artist in a temporary medium and by a well-known Northern Renaissance painter, who are the two artists, and to what works am I referring?

    Question #75987. Asked by queproblema. (Feb 17 07 10:32 AM)


    jacquie38

    		is it Trompe-l'œil.

    modern artist - Julian Beever - chalk art coca cola bottle

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Beever



    Feb 17 07, 10:37 AM
    lanfranco

    		I think qp may be looking for "anamorphosis", used by Hans Holbein and a feature of Beever's quite fascinating works:


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphosis

    Feb 17 07, 10:41 AM
    queproblema

    		Yes! Anamorphosis is the word. Holbein's skull is a mystery to me, but not as mysterious as Dali's CONIC anamorphoses. More appealing, though.

    A friend sent me a collection of Beever's pavement drawings last night that I actually lost sleep over. Here's his home page. Be sure to see the other views of the world and the girl in the pool.

    http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/index.html

    Feb 17 07, 10:52 AM
    queproblema

    		Oh, so you should get some sort of prize. Hmmm, maybe an anamorphic saint floating above a London sidewalk? A bit ethereal to use as a paperweight.

    Feb 17 07, 11:19 AM

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