Trompe L'oeil

Picture Credits: Richard Sargent
Whyte Eice by Marilyn Levine
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The term Trompe L'oeil is a french term for "fool the eye" which is literally what Marilyn Levine's work is dedicated to do. The viewer is being fooled into thinking the object is real when in fact, it is not because it is only a drawing or is actually made of a different material.

Marilyn Levine's artwork is mind boggling. It is absolutely amazing to see her work that looks like any ordinary object only to find out that most of her work are made out of ceramic. Many of her projects consists of imitating leather such as jackets, boots, bags, and straps. But her more unique work are cups. For cups, she does not present her work to imitate realistic cups. Instead, she designs her own cups that imitates the leather or canvas material but like all her other work, they are also made of ceramic. Her design is unique in that her ideas are one of a kind. Who would ever have thought to design a cup that looks like a shoe? Not only is the idea absolutely nonfunctional, the idea of drinking out of a shoe is quite appalling. Nonetheless, she successfully achieves in creating it look absolutely realistic as if it were a cup made out of shoe materials. The shoes laces look naturally fluid and the stitchings are extremely detailed. Every bend, every crevice, every corner is where it should be.