Most talented "pavement artist" ever

Quiet Storm

Quiet Storm

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I don't know if people in the US do that as well, but in Europe's inner cities you'll see lots of artists drawing stuff on the pavement.

Now this guy is taking it one step further...he draws pictures that look like they're three dimensional when viewed from a certain angle.
 
We've got that in New York. Oh ... you mean, those are pictures?

You know, we couldn't have that in New York, because you couldn't keep people from walking all over them long enough to be worth the effort. :D
 
Amazing work, too bad for the coke, sony, etc. That is really cool though, I like the one with the guy who looks like he's walking around the hole like it's real.
 
nelsonmc said:
I like the one with the guy who looks like he's walking around the hole like it's real.
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I'm sure that he simply avoids stepping on it. From his perspective it shouldn't look real at all...besides, if you're that close, you oughta notice the difference. ;)
 
Wow he's good. Kinda reminds me of a French artist who creates realistic 3D sculptures of dog poop all throughout Paris. :D
 
That is way cool. I'd probably get disoriented and fall down if I saw it from the right perspective.
 
Quiet Storm said:
I'm sure that he simply avoids stepping on it. From his perspective it shouldn't look real at all...besides, if you're that close, you oughta notice the difference. ;)
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True, that's why I said "looks like"... :D
 
Superb!

However, not to detract from that bloke's talent, the principle of anamorphic painting was known centuries ago:

ambassadorsx.jpg


The Ambassadors. Hans Holbein, 1533
(Oil on wood, 207 x 209.5 cm. National Gallery, London.)

"In “The Ambassadors,” the brown-grey smear near the bottom of the painting is revealed to be a very realistic human skull when the painting is viewed from a point just above the top-right corner."

maximus otter
 
There is a "graffiti" artist whose name escapes me- anyways he works not by painting on walls and sidewalks- but by selectively cleaning the dirt - thereby leaving his art as clean areas...
 
maximus otter said:
Superb!

However, not to detract from that bloke's talent, the principle of anamorphic painting was known centuries ago:

ambassadorsx.jpg


The Ambassadors. Hans Holbein, 1533
(Oil on wood, 207 x 209.5 cm. National Gallery, London.)

"In “The Ambassadors,” the brown-grey smear near the bottom of the painting is revealed to be a very realistic human skull when the painting is viewed from a point just above the top-right corner."

maximus otter
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Sure Max, but Hans didn't do it with chalk on pavement. Duh!
:D
 
Thanks, I've never seen that kind of sidewalk art. It must be awesome to see it in real life.

I truly enjoy watching artists at work. I'll never forget this gentleman that I saw at an art festival I attended in Palm Beach many years ago. What actually attracted me to his booth was his oddball, erratic behavior. He began with an empty canvas, and he kept rocking back and forth and yelling about how he was crazy. He would pick up one piece of chalk, mark the canvas with a single stroke, and drop it. He'd pick up a completely incompatible color and do the same thing. There was this young girl who was posing for the portrait. I kept wondering what the heck this "crazy" guy was going to accomplish with all those crazy marks and colors. He moved very quickly picking up a piece of chalk, striking, and dropping, moving from opposite sides of the canvas. After watching this for a little bit, you could suddenly see the picture start to form. It was made up of a totally disharmonious color scheme that together seemed to make perfect sense. :confused: It was so wonderful to watch. By the time he was through, he created one of the most beautiful portraits I'd ever seen. The girl's eyes were so amazingly deep. You felt as if you could see straight into her soul. If I had any money that day, I would have spent all of it on him.
 
Jennifer,
There's an artist that does (did?) large portraits of rock stars like that. I saw him on TV, and he would jump around while music was blasting, throwing paint around with big brushes and his hands in time to the music. It would look like nothing for the first half of the performance, and by the time he finished it would look just like Jimi Hendrix or whoever. I wonder if it was the same guy you saw.
 
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