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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the 17th Century and Cubism to today, trompe l'oeil art endures. Are we hard-wired to love things that are not as they appear to be, asks Caryn James. In Which Is Which? (1890) by the ...