Anne-Marie Cherrier, Curator of the travelling exhibitions of the Musée du Trompe-L’œil et du Décor Peint (Museum of Trompe-L’œil and Decorative Paint), presents a surprising, spectacular exhibition that plays on the public’s perceptions.
As a visitor, you know that you are viewing a flat, painted surface, but you will be surprised at how the three-dimensional illusion is achieved.
The art of trompe-l’oeil
Exhibition dates and addresses
Throughout the year, Musée du Trompe-l’œil et du Décor Peint holds training courses in France and elsewhere. These art lessons are accessible to all levels, individuals or professionals, and some require no prior understanding of drawing or painting.
Our instructors, each specialized in a particular technique, demonstrate their work as they teach participants to apply the technique and create their own decorative panels.
Learning trompe-l'œil techniques
To acquire the skills necessary to create a simple decorative element: shading and light, texture effects (stone, brick, foliage, and so on).
Duration: 5 days
Creation of a trompe-l’oeil featuring an architectural décor including the study of draped fabric, a water feature and a landscape.
Duration: 5 days
The Master Class provides the elementary rules of architectural and natural perspective and shows how to apply them to a trompe-l’oeil painting.
Duration: 15 days
Creation of a trompe-l’œil painting on a coped wood panel of approximately 70cm x 60cm
Duration: 10 days
The objective of this training course is to learn to use shading and light to imitate the three-dimensional effect of various decorative elements (moulding, friezes, arabesques, low relief, and so on).
Duration: 5 days
Creation of a trompe-l’oeil décor on three hinged panels (each 1.5m x 0.50m) made of wood or canvas stretched over a frame.
Duration: 5 days
Creation of texture effects on small supports: imitations of mosaic tiles, stone, frescoes, tapestries, rusted ironwork, bronze, and so on.
Duration: 5 days
After creating a fresco painting technique on a wall using natural pigments on fresh lime-and-sand plaster, the fresco is lifted away and applied to a canvas.
Duration: 5 days
