Trompe L’Oeil & Murals

TROMPE L’OEIL, is 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.

The formally trained artists at Full Spectrum Design specialize in fantasy realism and a wide range of artistic styles. Shown here is a ceiling done with a painted lattice, a stone arch, a commission of the Last Supper, an Italian landscape, and the Desert Angel.