Bird House

This Trompe l’ oeil painting of a birdhouse is on our kitchen wall. A French term literally meaning "trick the eye." Sometimes called illusionism, it's a style of painting which gives the appearance of three-dimensional, or photographic realism. It flourished from the Renaissance onward. The discovery of linear perspective in fifteenth-century Italy and advancements in the science of optics in the seventeenth-century Netherlands enabled artists to render object and spaces with eye-fooling exactitude. Both playful and intellectually serious, trompe artists toy with spectators' seeing to raise questions about the nature of art and perception.

Although the original painting is not available,
Any of Mikki’s Fine Art Paintings can be purchased as Giclee Reproductions, Matted Prints, or Greeting cards.

Matted Prints start at just $15.