French Duo TSF Crew's Optical Illusion Street Art Murals (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post UK  |  By Posted: 1/05/2012 13:56 Updated: 1/05/2012 15:02

Street art duo TSF Crew have spent the past 20 years perfecting their anamorphosis murals around derelict and run down industrial areas in France.

Earlier this year, the produced an eye-catching new work called The Tree Two in which they painted an optical illusion of a severed tree collapsed into a building, and produced this awesome video:



Now, fresh on the back of their second major exhibition at La Friche, Paris, ‘Milouz and Papy’ are finally making the transition from underground provocateurs to celebrated modern French artists, having already exhibited widely around Europe.

As is often the case, their underground popularity is gradually translating into mainstream, commercial appeal, and the partners have already had their work solicited by brands like Nintendo and Porsche.

“Working on anamorphosis murals was a logical conclusion of the large murals we were already producing,” Milouz explained to HuffPost UK.

“By ‘opening the wall’ behind our paintings, we invite viewers to enter our world using techniques of perspective and trompe l'oeil [French for ‘trick of the eye’].

Amazingly, after 20 years, they say they still find working together inspirational.

“The ideas for our murals are born from the crazy stories we enjoying talking about together all day long,” says Milous, who began his career as an artist drawing and sketching.

“Reactions to our work range from incomprehension, to amazement, to disbelief, with people arguing that it is a photo editing.

"But they never leave anybody feeling indifferent.”

TSF Crew will be generating plenty more stunned reactions as they embark on a full summer of festivals and exhibitions in France and abroad, which you can learn more about on their website.

Check out TSF Crew's amazing work to date:

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Street art duo TSF Crew have spent the past 20 years perfecting their anamorphosis murals around derelict and run down industrial areas in France. Earlier this year, the produced an eye-catching ne...
Street art duo TSF Crew have spent the past 20 years perfecting their anamorphosis murals around derelict and run down industrial areas in France. Earlier this year, the produced an eye-catching ne...
 
 
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07:44 PM on 05/20/2012
Makes British graffitti 'artists' work look like it was done by a child, all those silly meaning-less words!
06:55 PM on 05/20/2012
Street Artists are amazing with their murals
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25sammy25
We just wanna be togever !!!!
06:46 PM on 05/20/2012
Once took the train from Hook of Holland To Assen in Holland and the murals/graffiti on the railway walls were quite spectacular.Much better than plain bare walls.
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kevphillips02
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06:37 PM on 05/20/2012
The hoff is back
06:10 PM on 05/20/2012
On a photo the tromp l'oeil is easy to read. In real world the device is less compelling.
Good artwork nevertheless
06:05 PM on 05/20/2012
It is easy on a photo to see the trompe l'oeil as the photo is 2D; in the real world as the 3D sort
of to speak is not so easy to read.
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Leah G Cartoonist
live and let live
04:40 PM on 05/20/2012
Awesome...
03:13 PM on 05/20/2012
fantastic .really impressed.thats some talent they have
07:57 PM on 05/14/2012
"Street art duo TSF Crew have spent the past 20 years perfecting their anamorphosis murals"
Looks like you dont need 20 years, when you can just do the MATH ....... that video was released 2 days after the photo on Facebook and shows how easily you can reverse-engineer their anamorphics, if you can handle the formulas ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBiBuveQwV0
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Adam J Smith
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05:04 PM on 05/02/2012
Thank you for the excellent art show, HuffPost, and Milouz and Papy!
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08:23 PM on 05/20/2012
Art? It is an optical illusion, granted it has very good technical graphics but it is a million miles away from art.
10:01 AM on 05/21/2012
Then what do you think of as art? Visually fascinating, intellectually stimulating, socially meaningful, technically skilled. It has all those qualities; if this cannot be squeezed under the umbrella you call 'art' then I am sure I will be left without much interest in what little actually does.
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Adam J Smith
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11:54 PM on 05/21/2012
Why?  It's not good?  What sensation did it give you?  Ask yourself that, and you might be able to comment on art.  (He probably, "thinks the French are rude!")
08:20 AM on 05/02/2012
Well below average compared to London graffiti works.

They could learn from the master....lol

http://alexmartinezink.com/
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Christos Palmer
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05:48 PM on 05/01/2012
Fantastic talent being displayed there.