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3-D Pavement Street Art

3-D pavement street art refers to form of art that uses anamorphosis to create the illusion of 3-D image when viewed from the right perspective. It creates a very powerful impression which has given anamorphic street artists a celebrity status. Many of them have also been commissioned to create pavement artworks for galleries and museums.

Notable Anamorphic Street Artists

• Kurt Wenner. The inventor of 3-D pavement art started his career as a graphic artist. He drew attention of NASA that employed him as scientific illustrator. He worked for NASA until the early 1980s when he moved to Italy to study figurative art. It is in Italy where the artist developed 3-D pavement art. Wenner attracted the attention of the entire globe with his spectacular 3-D artworks but he also inspired the future generation of 3-D pavement street artists.

• Leon Keer. The Dutch artist rose to prominence with his advertising murals for large multinational corporations such as Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Heineken, Royal Club and many others. He is renowned for using a variety of mediums and techniques but he is also renowned for his 2-D and 3-D pavement artworks. In 2011, he took part of the Sarasota Chalk Festival in Florida that also featured Kurt Wenner.

• Julian Beever. The English artist creates astonishing 3-D pavement artworks since the mid-1990s. He works as a freelance artist and besides sidewalk art also paints murals, oil paintings, draws and creates collages. In 2010, he released a book featuring photographs of his most spectacular works from all over the world. The book is titled Pavement Chalk Artist.

• Edgar Müller. German 3-D illusionist street artist has established himself as one of the best in genre in the world also due to presentation of his work on YouTube. He was also a featured artist at the famous Sarasota Chalk Festival where he created metamorphose, an image that changed from a giant into a foetus.

• Manfred Stader. He began with pavement street art while he was a student of art in Frankfurt in the 1980s. Along Wenner, Beever and Müller, Stader is considered one of the best 3-D pavement street artists in the world.

• Tracy Lee Stum. The American artist has demonstrated that street art is not only in men’s domain. Her works rival the greatest masters of 3-D pavement illusions and she was commissioned by many art galleries, advertising agencies, multinational corporations and governmental agencies throughout the world. Stum also holds the world record for the largest chalk painting by a single person.