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Definition of trompe l'oeil. 1  1 : a style of painting in which objects are depicted with photographically realistic detail; also : the use of similar technique in interior decorating. 2  2 : a trompe l'oeil painting or effect. 3  3 : something that misleads or deceives the senses : illusion.
Photorealism and Pop art do share, however, a common visual ground: they both are indebted to the wide distribution of photographic media in popular culture. When examining the paintings from the movement's zenith in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there is an evident lack of clutter and extraneous detail. controversial attribution regarding Photorealism is its association to, and even equation with trompe l'oeil. The strict and traditional definition of trompe l'oeil is a painting that is meant to deceive the viewer's eye into believing they are actually viewing a real object and not a painting.