3D artist

Monsters climbing through the floors, magic carpet rides through fantastical cities... Yes, it's the return of the 3D artist

As tourists watch in wonder, a bizarre assortment of mystical animals appear to enjoy a rowdy lunch.

Elsewhere, two children are taken on a magical flying carpet ride across a peaceful city, while a woman is startled out of sleep when a crowd of angry bikers and drivers plough through her living room wall... in the centre of Waterloo Station.

We've either slipped into an alternate reality where anything is possible - or we're exploring the imagination and perception-bending 3D artwork of street artist Kurt Wenner.



Master artist: Onlookers in Nagasaki, Japan, gaze in awe at Wenner's 2005 depiction of Ceres' Banquet





Eat your heart out, Aladdin: In 'Ideal City', magic carpets are the best form of transport, especially for children. Drawn in Bettona, Italy, this year


The artist is known all over the world for his dazzling masterpieces, which fool the human eye into seeing a 3D image. Viewed from any other angle, the illusion shatters, but pick the right spot and the bizarre scene comes to life.

The American's three-dimensional chalk pictures have included muses swimming in a pond by the side of a road in Lucernes, Switzerland, a Judgement Day scene in a medieval town square, and most recently a virtual Renaissance city painted on the pavement in Bettona, Italy. In recent years, Kurt has been commissioned to create works for big-name brands as part of their advertising strategies.

Last year's bank vault (below) was commissioned by comparethemarket.com to represent the £16 million they claim their customers had saved that year so far. And in 2007 he transformed London's Waterloo Station for Sky HD with a design that saw a rickshaw crash into a living room. Commuters could be seen posing on the chalk in an effort to become part of the image.





Kurt Wenner uses pastels and paint to make his illusions




Incident at Waterloo: Kurt's illusion shows a rickshaw bursting through the walls of a living room... in the middle of a train station. Notice the woman lying on the couch - actually she's just lying on the station floor

Wenner began painting in Rome in 1982, having been inspired by Renaissance frescos and sculptures. He uses anamorphism - the technique traditionally used by artists to create the illusion of height - in his work as a means of lending depth to the street surface.

The Michigan-based artist was formerly a NASA employee, designing artist illustrations of future space projects. Then, inspired by the artwork of centuries-old frescoed ceilings he began his eye-bending masterpieces.

The technique can be seen on Renaissance frescoed ceilings, which were painted to give a distorted illusion of height for admirers viewing from below. The most famous example is Michelangelo's 16th century design for the Sistine Chapel in Rome.



A deadly sin, in this case, Gluttony, crashes out of the floor in Mantua, Italy




Classical themes: American street artist Kurt Wenner used Italian Renaissance techniques to create this Judgement Day scene in a medieval Italian town square

One of the artist's first commissions was a piece to honour the visit of Pope John Paul II to the Italian city of Mantua. Aside from his more commercial commissions, Wenner has since concentrated on classical myths and legends. Over the past 27 years Wenner has travelled the world with his talent, creating pavement art in an incredible 30 countries.

From The Mail

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What do you think, is this Art?





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He is good!
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