Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil TraditionA pioneering study of how Picasso, Braque, and Gris engaged with the pictorial tradition of illusion and deception in their influential Cubist works The age old tradition of pictorial illusionism, known as trompe loeil (deceive the eye), employs visual tricks that confound the viewers perception of reality and fiction, truth and falsehood. This radically new take on Cubism shows how Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris both parodied and paid