Show painting too natural pronounced lewk sis a greek painter who lived in the latter part of the filth fifth century B C is said to have painted a bunch ot of grapes which looked so natural that birds pecked at them this is supposed to have occurred during a competition between and a young rival named ze ais admitted his rivals superiority when painted a curtain by which the older artist himself was deceived pliny gives a somewhat different version of the grape story he says painted a boy holding grapes towards which birds flew commenting upon the incident remarked that tf if the boy had been as well painted as the grapes the birds would have been afraid to approach |