| This sort of abstract illusionism brings to mind certain early canvases by Bridget Riley. |
| Other paintings oscillate between illusionism and a more expressionistic style of depiction. |
| All are frontally oriented works that expose conventions of illusionism by carrying them off of the wall into real space. |
| Arguably illusionism was a taste diverted into the diorama, and thence ultimately into the cinema. |
| This illusionism is contradicted by brushwork highlighting the front picture plane or establishing ambiguous layers of space lying beyond. |
| The traditional illusionism of the still-life genre is rejected in favor of bravura flatness and self-revelation of the paint stroke. |
