{"id":7436,"date":"2013-04-08T08:48:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T15:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7436"},"modified":"2013-04-08T10:46:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:46:54","slug":"trompe-loeil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7436","title":{"rendered":"Trompe-l\u2019oeil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/katebridger.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Bridger<\/a> is a local artist and author. Her recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonstar.com\/community\/201473391.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in the <em>Nelson Star<\/em> discussed\u00a0<em>trompe-l\u2019oeil<\/em>&#8212;the ancient art of painting a building with such realism that the eye is tricked\u00a0into believing the structure has three-dimensional features that it does not. She gave a nice overview of the technique and offered examples, her local one being Reo&#8217;s Video at 607 Front Street.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I am a fan of <em>trompe-l\u2019oeil<\/em>\u00a0and have long admired what I had considered Nelson&#8217;s only representative: a building at 110 Baker Street housing a dentist&#8217;s office. It&#8217;s not that I was unfamiliar with Reo&#8217;s, but had always assumed that its decor was chosen more to\u00a0amuse the eye\u00a0than to trick it.<\/p>\n<p>Reo&#8217;s Video certainly has a delightfully\u00a0evocative\u00a0paint job, but the design is purposely cartoonesque. It is unlikely to trick anyone into imagining that its painted features are real. Yet, it does amuse.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7438\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/reos130407s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a local building with faux structures that is much more likely to fly under the radar. The Dental Building at 110 Baker not only has fake windows mixed in with its real ones, but even real windows with fake features such as lintels. Indeed, this building also tricks the eye with its painted anchor plates, pillars, and arcades.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7437\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/110Baker130407s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, if there there is a nicer example of <em>trompe-l\u2019oeil<\/em>\u00a0in Nelson, I don&#8217;t know of it. Of course, some building may have been so cleverly disguised that I have yet to spot it for what it is. Does anyone know of other regonal examples?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Kate Bridger is a local artist and author. Her recent article in the Nelson Star discussed\u00a0trompe-l\u2019oeil&#8212;the ancient art of painting a building with such realism that the eye is tricked\u00a0into believing the structure has three-dimensional features that it does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7436\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7436"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7452,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions\/7452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}