illusionistically

The live animals have been given illusionistically tropical, carnival-like quarters.

The figures are interacting in an illusionistically expanded space.

In one painting, an illusionistically rendered snail makes its way across the surface, leaving a faint trail of slime behind.

These shaped canvases hint illusionistically at volume or three dimensions even though the surface is resolutely flat.

These function literally and illusionistically.

Vasari creates a new, large-scale device by using illusionistically painted steps extending from the center of the lower zone to the actual physical floor.

The borders of each painting are deckled and illusionistically stretched like animal skins on flat surfaces that form their perimeters.

But Rebeccca Graves's porthole-view seascapes make a stab at illusionistically opening up the space.

Both painters were by now introducing stylized, almost illusionistically painted strips of decorative roping or braiding.

This is a pair of white chevrons shaded with orange and merged illusionistically with a third, inverted chevron.

The crocodile etc. obviously used the floor trap, but was it an illusionistically painted figure worked with sticks, or a man in a crocodile suit?

Set within an illusionistically rendered arch decorated with a jewel-encrusted cloth, the turban-crowned Mehmed appears fully human and yet every inch a king.

The artist spent much of his two years at UCLA "painting illusionistically - observed reality, dreams, fantasies, and memories."

Then there are the "shingles" - rows of rectangles that are unaligned as in a brick course but are shaded illusionistically.

The artist cuts houselike shapes out of Masonite, ornamentsthem with illusionistically painted motifs and places them in branches of polystyrene "trees."

In the set by Tosa Mitsuoki, the trees stand at opposite ends of a bluish space and the dangling slips, touched with gold, are treated illusionistically.

Mantegna's playful ceiling presents an oculus that illusionistically opens into a blue sky, with foreshortened putti playfully frolicking around a balustrade.

This is the Cubist canvas into which the artist incorporated rope and illusionistically patterned fabric, thus introducing in a single stroke collage and Synthetic Cubism.

Old descriptions from Autun tell us that the painting originally had a wooden frame painted illusionistically with inscriptions seemingly carved, like van Eyck's two portraits in London.

As if developing a pun, each illusionistically modeled figure is clothed in patterns that resemble motifs in children's books, and they seem derived from designs in the painted, two-dimensional background.

Bronx-born Vito Acconci's drawing of a public school courtyard whose benches and tiled walks would illusionistically replicate the facade may prove difficult to realize, but it is exhilarating to envision.

She seems to have stepped out of the cave that is illusionistically created by Takuro Ohsaka's sophisticated chiaroscuro lighting upon Toshi Yamamura's backdrop, which is actually a wall of tattered fabric.

All the same, the crumbling texture of civilization that preoccupied many artists and photographers after World War II are everywhere in the prints - used illusionistically to represent walls or just for their inherently romantic properties.

It was only after the invention of movable type and the mass circulation of texts saturated cultural consciousness that the now printed and ubiquitously distributed opinion of an author became illusionistically equated with its authority.

Abu al-Fadl 'Allami, historiographer for Akbar the Great, wrote about Basawan: "In designing and portrait painting and colouring and painting illusionistically...he became unrivalled in the world.