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The second most depressing thing about this summer at the movies was seeing that warmed-over rehash The Hangover II – a triumph of trompe-l'oeil marketing over substance – made $580m worldwide.

The Hangover II, Final Destination 5: will the summer of sequels never end? 2011

Urban prankster and trompe-l œil street artist and Dan Witz has been adding more hyper-real paintings to his mosh pit series.

This Is a Painting of a Mosh Pit -- ANIMAL animalnewyork.com 2010

Sculptor Robert Lobe (b. 1945) may not have the sensitivity of a Japanese gardener (his blunt forms are equally indebted to stage design, the art of trompe-l'oeil and the sculpture of David Smith), but his three hammered aluminum repoussé sculptures—placed in and around Lullwater near the Boathouse in Prospect Park—wed Eastern and Western sensibilities.

Of a Decade and a Dollar Lance Esplund 2011

For his own signature work, Thomas Demand builds and photographs intricate, small-scale, trompe-l'oeil models.

Outside-the-Box Thinking Starts From the Inside Lance Esplund 2011

For its first hotel project in Paris, Maison Martin Margiela creates a theatrical environment where realty and trompe-l'oeil are mixing together.

Evelyne Politanoff: La Maison Champs-Elysees by Maison Martin Margiela Evelyne Politanoff 2011

Simone Falcetta Benan's "Investment Bankers" collection includes this gray trompe-l'oeil print suit.

Three Rising Designers 2011

For its first hotel project in Paris, Maison Martin Margiela creates a theatrical environment where realty and trompe-l'oeil are mixing together.

Evelyne Politanoff: La Maison Champs-Elysees by Maison Martin Margiela Evelyne Politanoff 2011

Still, the Army Art Collection grew in size and stature in 1960 when Time-Life editor Henry Luce presented more than 1,000 original World War II-era pieces to the Army, including works by trompe-l ' oeil still-life artist Aaron Bohrod and Reginald Marsh, the Paris-born artist whose depictions of life at war are as memorable as his piec es depicting life in New York City.

Soldiers Armed With Pencils and Paint Mark Yost 2010

At its best, this approach produces queasy, trompe-l'oeil immediacy.

NYT > Home Page By A. O. SCOTT 2012

More complicated pieces, like the iconic trompe-l'oeil leopard skin gown made for Jean Paul Gaultier in 1998, require upward of 500.

SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By JENNY BARCHFIELD 2011