The Impossible Geometry of Fanette G.

October 7, 2013 8:35 PM

Géométrie de l'impossible de Fanette G., après Felice Varini et Georges Rousse.
posted by klangklangston (10 comments total)

Previously.
posted by empath at 9:02 PM on October 7, 2013 [2 favorites]

Look closely/take my word for it, the colors are not painted/photoshopped onto the photograph, but are actually painted into the walls/ground/railings/etc. Cool, huh? It's alright, you're allowed to like it, you don't have to be metafilter smug all the time.

While this style of art has been around for centuries, today it carries a different implications: it is always conscious of the existence of CGI. Whatever else the art says or is, it is also saying, "it looks like CGI, but it isn't." Usually CGI is used to fake reality, but in this case the very point of the realism is to make you think it's CGI, so that you can be awed by the fact that it isn't. Its authenticity is reinforced by the work you have to do to discover it. "Holy crap, that's real!"

To repeat: this is something real that is designed to look fake.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 9:05 PM on October 7, 2013 [5 favorites]

I want the next iteration of this trompe l'oeil style to account for movement through a given space, for impossible shapes to shift and merge and interact as you move through a dilapidated building (or my apartment, fuck), drifting into one another and constantly making the viewer question the reality of the space they're physically moving through.

TIA.
posted by carsonb at 9:29 PM on October 7, 2013 [1 favorite]

The parking garage signs in Joseph Gurl's link are awesome.
posted by clorox at 1:05 AM on October 8, 2013

Also from Joseph Gurl's link: It's alright, you're allowed to like it, you don't have to be metafilter smug all the time.
posted by carsonb at 5:14 AM on October 8, 2013

............which is also in the pull-quote. Derp.
posted by carsonb at 5:14 AM on October 8, 2013

carsonb, we'll try not to be metafilter smug about your mistake.
posted by jepler at 5:16 AM on October 8, 2013

Metafilter: Smug all the time.
posted by ardgedee at 6:07 AM on October 8, 2013

Look closely/take my word for it, the colors are not painted/photoshopped onto the photograph, but are actually painted into the walls/ground/railings/etc

Okay, that makes it a lot more interesting.
posted by alms at 6:34 AM on October 8, 2013

carsonb, we'll try not to be metafilter smug about your mistake.

Oh, I'm gonna be smug. Right now. It's on. Look at the smugness on my face.
posted by Mental Wimp at 11:05 AM on October 9, 2013