Trompe l’Oeil too
I’ve been posting about murals on every Monday for a while now and I’ve seen a lot of trompe l’oeil but there were a couple here on Web Urbanist that I had not seen before that I thought were interesting. Like these. They are pretty phenomenal and wild. This ceiling mural of trompe l’oeil putti is a classic, however, by Andrea Mantegna and the other ceiling is by Vasari and Zuccari in the Florence Duomo and the bottom, I sadly cannot remember from my Art History days. This is wonderful, modern trompe l’oeil mural work by William Cochran, who I’ve written about before. I was lucky to take a workshop…
Robert Dafford
Robert Dafford, born in 1951, has been doing murals for more than 30 years. He studied art at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and interrupted his art work to serve three years as a naval illustrator and draftsman during the Vietnam War. His first mural was a rainbow trout painted in 1969 for a fish market. He now has painted nearly 300 murals around the world. Several are in New Orleans. One prominent location is on the corner of Girod and Magazine streets. This depicts a horse-drawn coffee wagon of the Reilly Coffee Company. Another striking mural is the 150 foot tall clarinet on the side of the Holiday…
