The girl Julie Le Brun looking into a mirror, painted in 1787 by French painter Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun ( 1755-1842).
I digitally placed the girl on a different background (a trained eye might recognise painting from 1660-1661 by Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch) and because I added a wooden picture frame to the foreground, from which the girl partly protrudes, a trompe-l'œil was created (an image in the visual arts in which an optical illusion is deliberately created).
An antique work of art, but with a wink ;-)
The stylists at Art Heroes call my art style ‘Art with a Wink’. And I couldn't agree more. Life is serious enough as it is, don't you think? ;-)
I mainly make surrealist artworks and collages, because in those artstyles I can so wonderfully unleash my creativity and unbridled..
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