"Once known as Madonnari, Street Painters, Pavement artists, Chalk Artists, and Sidewalk Artists have designed impermanent or Ephemeral Art for centuries. Currently, Kurt Wenner is writing a Street Painting History, explaining how sidewalk art and pavement art transformed itself into a spectacular medium, popular in Advertising, Publicity and numerous Street Painting Festivals."
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Artist Kurt Wenner with his work in Waterloo Station, London.
An elephant graveyard on the pavement of Portobello road in London. This drawing, at the entrance of the world’s largest antiques market, was part of a campaign by an animal welfare group to publicise the 20,000 elephants that are killed every year because of the ivory trade.
German artist Edgar Mueller painted 'The Crevasse', this Ice Age fissure, on 250 square metres of pavement on the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, as part of the town's Festival of World Cultures. "I wanted to play with positives and negatives to encourage people to think twice about everything they see," Mueller said. With up to five assistants, Mueller painted all day long from sunrise to sunset.
Mueller, who has previously painted a giant waterfall in Canada, said he was inspired by the British 'Pavement Picasso' Julian Beever, whose dramatic but more gentle 3D street images have featured in The Daily Mail.
'Use your eyes', a piece of 3-D Street Art by Edgar Mueller in Geldern, Germany. The painting, which took a team of artists five days to complete, is 400 square metres.
Manfred Stader with his cup of coffee in Covent Garden, London.
Danielle Lloyd, the former Miss England, dips her feet into a swimming pool. The image, made by 'Pavement Picasso' Julian Beever, was so realistic that some shoppers swerved to avoid it.
This advert in Covent Garden was commissioned by the producers of Disaster Movie, a 2008 parody starring Carmen Electra.
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