Edgar Müller
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Edgar Müller is, "one of the world's top 3-D illusionist street painters,", he is, "one of the best known street painters in the world thanks to his YouTube videos", and has been featured as "Maestro Madonnaro" at the Sarasota Chalk Festival
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At the Avenida de Colores, Inc.
Müller created a 100' x 40' 3-D street painting that is the first known contemporary street painting that metamorphosed from one image to another with the change from day to night because the painter used photoluminescent paints.
At the Sarasota Chalk Festival
, the featured artist, Vera Bugatti, and Müller, created a 3-D
street painting that made history as well. For the first time in history a street painting was designed to metamorphose
, the image changing from day to night from a giant into a fetus in the uterus, through the use of photoluminescent
paints. It measured 100’ x 40’.
Sarasota Chalk Festival
Sarasota Chalk Festival is an American cultural event celebrating a sixteenth century performing art form of Italian street painting. The festival is focused around the street artists who are known as Madonnari in Italy because historically, they recreated images of the Madonna...
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At the Avenida de Colores, Inc.
Avenida de Colores, Inc.
Avenida de Colores, Inc. was founded in 2010 by Denise Kowal as a 501 nonprofit corporation based in Sarasota, Florida in the United States. The corporation is organized for the purpose of providing students with experiences and instruction in the visual and performing arts and to enrich...
Müller created a 100' x 40' 3-D street painting that is the first known contemporary street painting that metamorphosed from one image to another with the change from day to night because the painter used photoluminescent paints.
At the Sarasota Chalk Festival
Sarasota Chalk Festival
Sarasota Chalk Festival is an American cultural event celebrating a sixteenth century performing art form of Italian street painting. The festival is focused around the street artists who are known as Madonnari in Italy because historically, they recreated images of the Madonna...
, the featured artist, Vera Bugatti, and Müller, created a 3-D
Stereoscopy
Stereoscopy refers to a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by presenting two offset images separately to the left and right eye of the viewer. Both of these 2-D offset images are then combined in the brain to give the perception of 3-D depth...
street painting that made history as well. For the first time in history a street painting was designed to metamorphose
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation...
, the image changing from day to night from a giant into a fetus in the uterus, through the use of photoluminescent
Photoluminescence
Photoluminescence is a process in which a substance absorbs photons and then re-radiates photons. Quantum mechanically, this can be described as an excitation to a higher energy state and then a return to a lower energy state accompanied by the emission of a photon...
paints. It measured 100’ x 40’.
Guinness Records
- Largest pavement art
- Largest anamorphicAnamorphosisAnamorphosis or anamorphism may refer to any of the following:*Anamorphosis, in art, the representation of an object as seen, for instance, altered by reflection in a mirror...
pavement art
Further reading
- Menkhoff, Inga (2007). Optical Illusions: Amazing Deceptive Images, Where Seeing Is Believing, p.13 and 30. ISBN 9781405495714.
- Inc. Scholastic (2011). Ripley's Believe It or Not!: Ripley's Curioddities, p.116. ISBN 9780545316545.
External links
- "Edgar Müller", Metanamorph.com.
- (Fri May 13, 11:20 AM ET). "3D Street Art by Edgar Mueller", Yahoo! News.
- Madlangbayan, Alex (May 17, 2011). "Edgar Mueller Art On Moscow 3D Sidewalk Paintings (Photo{s})", BatangasToday.com.