Trompe-l’œil

We spent a fun day at this 3-D museum called Art in Paradise in Chiang Mai.  It was expensive and hokey, but we got some great photos.  Opened in 2013, its gallery was hand painted by a group of South Korean artists.  It is touted as “interactive art” and needs the participation and imagination of the viewers.

The museum is set up with numerous murals on the walls and floors to create optical illusions for photos.  Trompe-l’œil (French for “deceive the eye“, is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. Forced perspective is a comparable illusion in architecture.

We visited with our new friends, fellow traveling family Vicki and her girls Amy and Izzie.  It was a good day.