Mirrors may be used in trompe l'oeil art. Here we look
through an open fence window to a courtyard garden
surrounding a home. The window in the brick fence has
two swinging panes. A garden outside of the fence,
which the viewer can't see directly, is reflected in
each swinging pane. In the right pane, we see a
reflection of part of the garden: a Jurassic-park
dinosaur surrounded by lush jungle plants! In the
left pane, we see a reflection of that same garden.
We see Henry VIII, surrounded by those same Jurassic-park
lush jungle plants. Henry the VIII is looking anxiously
towards that Jurassic-park dinosaur.
Joseph Stalin 1
often had important political figures removed from
photgraphs, sometimes replaced by other political
figures who were never in the original photograhs.
In Stalin's view, "seeing is believing". Trompe l'oeil
images may have a variety of uses other than art.
1
King, David; "The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification
of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia", Henry Holt
and Co., 2005
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