His meticulously painted sculptures of vegetables and the human figure are notable because they create an uncanny illusion of reality. (artpace.org)
Working in oils, Renaissance artists could create a vivid illusion of reality by making individual brush strokes disappear. (discovermagazine.com)
Through their painted illusions of reality, each is shaking the ostensibly stable ground of daily life and revealing it as a false construction. (whitney.org)