So much nicer than filling the space up with billboards. It's a bit of a shame that the default artwork for a lot of outside space is paid advertising.
There are a couple countries where it is common to have intricate art on the outside of certain large vehicles. Like private buses in Haiti[1] or trailer trucks in Pakistan[2]. I don't know if there would be any possibility of renting out the surface area to advertisers instead, but I did hear a podcast once analyzing the economics of paying to have the private busses in Haiti decorated. If I recall, it basically came down to a feeling in the population that it was more prestigious to go through the city in something beautiful. Perhaps proof of the "value" of art that works even within a first-year economics class.
In Argentina it was usual that the bus had "fileteado". It was a 10 or 20 years ago, and the reason was that the bus lines were something like a cooperative and each bus driver was the owner of his bus. But in the recent times, the bus lines have a more usual company structure and the buses are owned by the company, so each bus has a standard color. Anyway, they still have some internal custom decoration, so in many cases you can recognize which bus you take if you use the line frequently. Also it's usual now to have advertising outside the bus.
Trompe-L'oeil works great indoors, too. You can inexpensively add all kinds of detail, such as coffered ceilings, without having to pay a carpenter! A favorite is making the ceiling look like it is open to the sky. I've seen it used to repair badly damaged marble, it was so good you had to look really close to distinguish the paint from the marble.
Wow, that is really wonderful. Really makes the city look more lively.
I really like the Trompe-L'oeil in Brussels, when I visited their once. They had famous characters like Tin-tin. It made the city express that it had culture, just even during the first glance.
A commenter pointed out that one or two of these images appear to be photoshopped, most likely mock ups of a scene that the artist intended to create. The commenter took a lot of heat, but does appear to be correct. The fifth-to-last image (the before) and fourth-to-last (the after) show it pretty clearly if you check out the clouds.
Possibly, but also maybe the other way around. Perhaps they didn't have a before picture of the scene from the right angle, so the before one is photoshopped?
Looking at the artist's webpage[0], you can find videos[1] of the work as well as different angles. The before/after effect does look fake, though. I think you are right that the before picture is the one being photoshopped.
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[ 99.5 ms ] story [ 675 ms ] thread[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=painted+bus+in+haiti&source=...
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=pakistan+truck&source=lnms&t...
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fileteado
Autotranslation of the Spanish article with more images: https://translate.google.com.ar/translate?hl=es-419&sl=es&tl...
Even more images: https://www.google.com/search?q=fileteado+colectivo&tbm=isch
This website features more examples of this kind of works under the label "trampantojos".
I really like the Trompe-L'oeil in Brussels, when I visited their once. They had famous characters like Tin-tin. It made the city express that it had culture, just even during the first glance.
[0] http://www.a-fresco.com/pages/ville.html [1] http://www.a-fresco.com/video/video_recre.html