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Nonetheless, the initial trompe l'oeil is there.
There was space in that little white chapel at the start of the show to include an example of the trompe l'oeil American masters William Harnett and John Peto, contemporaries of Cézanne's, who are just as much founders of modern still life as Cézanne, and whose more playful spirit is just as tangible in the works at MoMA.
Venice artists are among those who have pioneered the street-painting that has spread throughout L.A. — the trompe l’oeil murals covering whole façades, often three or four stories high, some creating optical illusions by depicting mirror images of the street on which they appear.
No document links them, but shared motifs (a woman weighing gold, a trompe l'oeil curtain drawn just so) in their paintings--especially from a magic moment around 1658--suggest an intimacy akin to such famous partnerships as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, or Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
When a trompe l'oeil shaving brush and a match turn up later in the show in Magritte's Personal Values (1952), they have an oneiric suggestiveness quite in contrast to Murphy's flat factuality.