While commonly used among fashion designers today, the technique’s origins are actually deeply rooted in art history. The fable goes like this: in Ancient Greece, two artists — Zeuxius and Parrhasius ...

Rasha El-Agroudi, lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Alexandria University, explores in an interview with Ahram Online the practical and aesthetic characteristics of Trompe-l'œil art and its ...

Trompe L’Oeil is a French phrase meaning trick of the eye, or optical illusion. Coincidentally, when said out loud it sounds rather a lot like ‘Trump loyal’. Most people who notice this similarity ...

Trompe l'oeil, I would argue, is the first truly conceptual art, more interested in what it has to say than in what it ends up looking like. For the painters in this show, that is, it's more important ...

I sometimes need reminding that fashion can be a fantasy world. When you spend all of your waking hours thinking, talking, and writing about clothes, it can start to feel more like a...what's the word ...