In 1434, the high-tech medium of oil paint allowed the Flemish master Jan van Eyck to infuse his sumptuous double portrait of the Arnolfinis with astonishing depth.He couldn't resist showing off a little more: A convex mirror on the back wall contains a tiny self-portrait of the painter at work.Six centuries later, when the multimedia artist and writer Seth Price includes an illusionistic mirrored sphere in the upper left of Thought Comes from the Body II, a big, crackled black and Day-Glo painting on panel, it still signals virtuosity.
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