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Article: Realism show at Davenport museum may make you look twice.("Feast the Eye, Fool the Eye: Still-life and Trompe l'oeil Paintings From the Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection" at Figge Art Museum)
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- August 15, 2005
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Byline: Michael Kilian
The Figge Art Museum, formerly the Davenport (Iowa) Museum of Art, has opened its new quarters in that city with an exhibition dedicated to artistic deceit.
Called "Feast the Eye, Fool the Eye: Still-life and Trompe l'oeil Paintings From the Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection," the show is devoted to genres that take artistic realism to such accomplished extremes that the viewer is convinced he or she is looking not at paintings but the real thing.
Trompe l'oeil can lead one into a lot of bumping into walls. A number of these still lifes also carry a moral message: All life is mortal.
The 43 paintings span the ...