trompe l’oeil

Isaac Kremer/ January 14, 2018/ / 0 comments

In French, for “fool the eye.” A drawing or painting that imitates reality so closely that it might momentarily fool a viewer into thinking the scene is real. Objects are rendered in extremely fine detail to emphasize the illusion of tactile and spatial qualities. “In its clever confusion of life and art, prefigured much later experiments with optical devices such as cameras obscura, panoramas, dioramas, and catoptric art” (King, 2000). Photo from Stuart, Florida, 2018. (Kremer, 2023)

Photo from Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, 2021.

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Isaac is a nationally acclaimed downtown revitalization leader, speaker, and author. Districts Isaac managed have achieved over $1 billion of investment, more than 1,645 jobs created, and were 2X Great American Main Street Award Semifinalists and a 1X GAMSA winner in 2023. His work has been featured in Newsday, NJBIZ, ROI-NJ, Patch, TapInto, and USA Today. Isaac is a Main Street America Revitalization Professional (MSARP), with additional certifications from the International Economic Development Council, National Park Service, Project for Public Spaces, Grow America (formerly the National Development Council), and the Strategic Doing Institute. He currently serves as Executive Director for Experience Princeton in Princeton, New Jersey.

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