14 DAY TRIAL // How about crawling inside some famous paintings and being photographed in movie set-like scenes while visiting a museum. It is as cool as it sounds, and the surreal photographs can actually be made in an exhibition of two-dimensional paintings that trick the eye, in Seoul, South Korea.
The paintings give the viewer the impression of three-dimensional settings, but in fact it is the work of famous Tromp l'oeil artists who turn masterpieces into eye-deceiving art, notes Artlex.
The “Tromp L'oeil” art was recreated in a Korean exhibition that allows visitors to take hilarious and bizarre photographs while crawling inside paintings. The Trick Eye Museum has an incredible collection, of hundreds of oversized paintings, making it possible for guests to jump inside and add themselves in the landscape.
This type of "trompe l'oeil" art has been around since ancient times, appearing in the legendary tale of Zeuxis and Parrhasius, two painters who were competing for the title of the more accomplished artist.
In order to test who was the greater artist of the two, they embarked in a painting competition and showcased their best work. Zeuxis went first with an image of grapes, so realistic-looking that birds came and pecked the canvas in an attempt to eat them.
Parrhasius' painting was still covered, and when Zeuxis tried to pull the cover off it, he realized that there was none, and that what he was seeing was the actual painting. Tricked by his rival's incredible illusion, he admitted to being defeated.
Visitors are attracted to take part in Botticelli's Birth of Venus, crawl out a monster's mouth, get peed on by a baby, stay under waterfalls of money or just pull the pants off Edvard Munch's The Scream, thus having the chance to be the subject of amusing recreations.
Other amazing images allow guests to recreate wall climbing or even ceiling standing, and some are so big that they even take up entire rooms. After being flooded by the “virtual reality” possibilities, artists passionate about "trompe l'oeil" decided to show the fact that optical illusions can easily be made with just a brush and canvas.