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Today's comment comes from Becky Knold in response to yesterday's "Clayton on Art" SPEW post, in which Alec discusses trompe le'oeil.

Knold writes,

Trickery and Illusion... no one likes to be tricked and fooled... unless they are somehow "in" on the joke. The job of the artist, it would seem, is to somehow let the viewer know that he knows that they know, and that it's cool to be "in the know". But if the artist is simply trying to fool the public, he will never succeed (and if by some chance he did, he will be resented for it!). Play nice with your friends.