Street Art: Edgar Mueller

Art is not only found in Museums and showrooms. It can be found anywhere, even on streets we walk through every day from home to work. Edgar Mueller is a street artist who creates anamorphic images, which are carefully constructed distortions that can be viewable only from one spot. Therefore, in his work, perception is very important because it is able to bring his 2-dimensional drawings on the ground into 3-dimensional images.

http://www.metanamorph.com/albums/userpics/10001/normal_i-can-fly.jpg

Mueller worked with 250 square meter of open pavement when he created The Crevasse. In his painting, he used blue as the monochromatic color that brings visual unity to his painting. The Crevasse uses one-point perspective through the incorporation of repetition with lines that leads “downwards,” or closer to us, towards a single vanishing point. The repetitive use of lines create a visual rhythm, bringing harmony to the overall painting. Mueller also created lighting by painting the “top” of the crevasses lighter, and then gradually darkens the blue color as it reaches closer to the “bottom” of the crevasses, mimicking the effects the sun would have on an actual 3-dimensional crevasse. The area closest to the vanishing point is painted black, and thus, encourages the viewers to use their own imagination in creating the illusion of depth. The asymmetrically balanced or informally balanced painting, which has a well-distributed visual weight, brings equilibrium to the overall effect of his work.
It doesn’t matter whether passersby are armed with artistic knowledge of the principles of design or not, we can all agree that Edgar Mueller’s anamorphic images are simply amazing.

Here is a Youtube video showing the process of his artwork:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNYtd0Ayt0

souces:
http://www.metanamorph.com/albums/userpics/10001/normal_i-can-fly.jpg
http://www.metanamorph.com/displayimage-album,4,pos,0,3D%20Pavement%20Art-Ice%20Age-The%20Crevasse.html