Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 15 John F. Peto Questions: |
John F. Peto and "Fool-the-Eye" Paintings
John Peto specialized in still-life painting. He painted
many pictures in a style popularized by the Dutch in the
17th-century called trompe l'oeil, or "fool-the-eye,"
painting. In this style, artists painted
NATURALISTIC images
in order to trick viewers into believing they were looking
at arrangements of real objects. "Fool-the-eye" pictures
became popular among an American public that admired the
skill required to create them.
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