One of my dear colleagues (Hi, Marie-Madeleine!) took me to lunch in her car today and I had my camera with me (of course!) As we were close to the Place Cambronne, the 15th arrondissement, I came across this fantastic mural. Unfortunately I don't know who made it, nor on which exact street it is. If someone here knows, please let us know...
It's very cute! The 3 D effect is very well done.
ReplyDeleteBonjour Eric,
ReplyDeleteJe suis une francaise qui habite a Philadelphie et qui a grand plaisir a consulter ton blog chaque jour. Aujourd'hui, je ne pouvais pas ne pas te laisser un message, cet immeuble est celui ou habite mes grand-parents et donc je peux te dire avec certitude que c'est a l'angle de la rue de la croix nivert et de la rue de Javel. Merci pour ce petit cadeau. J'en suis toute emue.
Sympa comme coïncidence... Merci pour l'info, je suis passé tellement vite que je n'ai pas pu noter ! Content de t'avoir fait penser à tes grands parents (enfin, j'espère que tu les aimes bien !!)
ReplyDeleteOtherwise I just received an email from Fred (the one who wrote the Widget) who said he could not post a comment because of blogger behind stuck (grrrrrrrrrrr!).
He said: « Used to live just next to that one. It’s called « Le bestiaire », painted in april 1996 by de Renty and De Lanouvelle… »
Thanks ;)
Amazing mural! Before I read your verbage, I thought it was real.
ReplyDeleteWow! It looks like the animals are real statues. Great Shot!
ReplyDeleteHello Eric!
ReplyDeleteMuch like Marina I make regular visits to your site simply because I love to see photos of my home town - which I miss dearly! Rarely do I leave any remarks but today I just had to: the photo of the mural is simply amazing - it has an absolutely surreal quality, almost Magrittesque in composition. So striking! Thank you for making my day.
This is trompe l'oeil, right? Fantastic! Hope someone knows who the artist is.
ReplyDeleteWhat a spectacular mural - really unusual and beautiful!
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ReplyDeleteA rough tranlsation from Marina's post:
ReplyDeleteI am a French woman living in Philadelphia who gets a lot of pleasure from consulting your blog every day. Today, I just couldn't help but leave a comment - this building is the one where my grandparents live and therefore I know with certitude that it's at the angle of rue de la croix nivert et de la rue de Javel. Thank you for this little gift. I am very moved.
Eric's message above gives the name of the work.
Excellent photo Eric and a nice surprise this morning.
c'est tres cool! It is so 3D.
ReplyDeleteIf the direction of the sunlight is right, that is the same with the surrounding objects (maybe around late afternoon), I think it would look even more real.
That mural has a very cool effect. Good thing you had your trusty camera on you, Eric!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great find! I might do that to the side of my house... excellent.
ReplyDeleteThe subject of this photo is utterly amazing. The dimensional quality is astounding. It reminds me of the outstanding building murals that we have found in Quebec City. Le Bestia1re is complimented well by its surrounding items. Great job, Eric.
ReplyDeletece trompe l'oeil est magnifique (c'est bete qu'il y est ces deux panneaux publicitaires en dessous).
ReplyDeleteEarlier this month I came across the following quote by Georges Bataille. It moved me, just as this surreal, whimsical mural does, triggering fugitive memories of that power to wonder, that hunger for enchantment, we all possess at the start of our lives but which grows fainter and fainter as we grow older. Art, be it high or low, indoors or outdoors, should occasionally give us moments like this, in which we are free to dream with our eyes open.
ReplyDelete"As children, we have all suspected it: perhaps we are all, moving strangely beneath the sky, victims of a trap, a joke whose secret we will one day know. This reaction is certainly infantile and we turn away from it, living in a world imposed on us as though it were "perfectly natural", quite different from the one that used to exasperate us. As children, we did not know if we were going to laugh or cry but, as adults, we "possess" this world, we make endless use of it, it is made of intelligible and utilisable objects. It is made of earth, stone, wood, plants, animals. We work the earth, we build houses, we eat bread and wine. We have forgotten, out of habit, our childish apprehensions. In a word, we have ceased to mistrust ourselves.
Only a few of us, amid the great fabrications of society, hang on to our really childish reactions, still wonder naively what we are doing on the earth and what sort of joke is being played on us. We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world."
Thanks, Eric.
Help! How do you pronounce trompe l'oille? Can you write it out phonitically for me? I keep sounding like a fool.
ReplyDeleteI probably spell like a fool, too, but it's very early in Chicago, so I am forgiven.
Une autre bonne raison de retourner à la ville de la fascination sans fin. Eric, vous continuez à exceler. (mon premier commentaire, mais non mon bout). L'Australie doit succede en France !
ReplyDeleteBon Jour Mon Ami! =) I LOOOOOVE this...what a classy "Tramp Lowell!" LOL! Just confirms why I think the architecture & art are so dang beautiful in Paris! =)))
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of Eric Grohe. So spectacular!
ReplyDeleteSuper! Great! I didn't know that one, thanks;o)
ReplyDeletephonetics :
trompe-l'oeil = tromp loy
means "that deceives the eye"
I adore murals! And threaten my husband that I will paint murals on every wall in our home....
ReplyDeleteMurals both beautify and give pleasure!
ReplyDeleteHaxo, thanks for the link. It is incredible how well this mural is done. Not the usual fake windows, but 3-d animals.
ReplyDeleteSomeone asked me the translation for a "trompe d'oeil". I believe it is "optical illusion"
I was not sure if this was real or not :)
ReplyDeleteVous en connaissez d'autres? Ces trompe-l'oeil sont tellement fascinants...
ReplyDeleteoh sorry, the anonymous phonetics are mine
ReplyDeleteEric,
ReplyDeletethanks for bringing this to us, it looks so real, such a great 3d effect!
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ReplyDeleteI confirm the location, I used to live right in front of it. There are many others in Paris if you look upwards!
It moved me to see that picture in this great blog. Congratulations and keep posting nice pictures like this one.
Check out the web site dedicated to les "twomp loille" :
http://www.trompe-l-oeil.info
is it real... it looks like a 3D design?
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