Process of a ready-made, work in progress...

Part 3: From a fake facsimile to a real trompe-l'œil.

I. The impossible copy, limits of a practice.

Today, Engineering technics of scan and prints can produce facsimiles which are perfect copies of their models. The challenge to copy a Leonardo's painting was to use traditional tools like oil paintings and brushes to fight with mechanical reproductions. Already in the second part of this document, we have seen that the copy is a mix of traditional technics with the use of modern technology (cf: the creation of vector paths reported on the panel). But the final scanner was human eyes, and prints were brushes conducted by human hands. Then, Despite all the care of details and the care of following a working process step by step, this copy could only be the result of a human's know-how.

As it is impossible to reach the level of a real facsimile, the next step of the job is to complete the painting with the aim to build a trompe l'œil. Researches of material effects are slowly bringing more consistency to the copy. The work is still in progress...