These are mainly portraits by great artists who create illusions not for their own sake but to tell us something about their subjects.

大都是名家绘制的肖像画。他们不是为了自己扬名，而是要凸显作品主题。

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Al Seckel takes great delight in visual illusions and the brain mechanics that they reveal.

Al Seckel对视觉幻象和人脑的表现机理有极大乐趣。

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Because painting is a two-dimensional art, the flat pattern of lines and shapes is an important aspect of design, even for those painters concerned with creating illusions of great depth.

绘画作为二维空问艺术，线条和形态的平面图案是构思中的重要因素，哪怕对要创作具有巨大景深图像的画家也是如此。

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Both our art and our literature go to great pains to destroy our illusions and remind us that they are merely ink on paper or oil paint on canvas.

FORBES: The Unhidden Machine

Among the people of the Great War period, one senses that there really were illusions to be lost and faiths to be shattered.

WSJ: Goodbye to All That