Street painting

Street painting, also called pavement painting with pastels or colored pigments paintings on asphalt or other sealed floor surfaces.

General

The street painting is a very old form of street art. Because of the materials, chalks or applied with a brush pigments that are easily fixed only in rare cases on the pavement used, the result is a short shelf life.

As a rule, finance the artists of street images, while they work on the works of art, with donations from passers-by.

Street painting is spread worldwide. A traditional place in Germany, where almost always street painters to make is, for example, the Cologne cathedral square. On the large granite slabs in front of the cathedral is a lot of space to paint large pictures without obstructing passers-by stream. The substrate and the location is quite important for street painters, as not every place is suitable to paint chalk appealing images and at the same time still interested enough passers-by, which only pass through their comments and donations their work motivation and meaning.

History of street painting

Although the history of street painting has proven five centuries, but little concrete is known about their background and the changes it has undergone over time. They probably originated in Italy in the 16th century in the context of religious processions and celebrations in which religious motives, in particular Marie representations were painted on the streets. Religious motives owe the street painters its name, has kept unchanged in Italy today: Madonnari. Thus, the established findings have now been exhausted; the art history knows no names of individual Madonnari nor the reception history of this early form of art in public space.

Has on the more traditional orientation of the street painting to this day not much changed. In the pedestrian streets of the cities, most of the pavement painted paintings copies of paintings that are deeply embedded in the collective consciousness. Botticelli, Rubens and Rembrandt van Rijn, and other old masters are an integral part of the repertoire. Works by modern or even contemporary painting, however, rarely belong to the subject fundus of the street painters of today, whose conservative aesthetic preferences are dependent on the recognition of the picturesque virtuosity that the original expected of them. The technical skills exist within this guild quite large differences that remain but not unnoticed by the passer-by. A good painter can see it to necessarily mean that he knows his craft. The traditional street painting is also more likely to be regarded as arts and crafts and can not be defined as art.

In California, there were mounting images of this kind and it is a global Street Painting community started to develop, but their few Members understood as a " service provider on behalf Gaya " and thus began to swarm all over the world to accurately colored in city centers characters set and thus to achieve a large number people with their messages. It began the advent of the Internet and of the major festivals in which some artists were hired for events of all kinds and thus spread the non-traditional street painting world as well as the 3D street painting made ​​popular.

3D street painting

3D street painting is a relatively new art form that first appeared on the sidewalks and plazas in the cities of the world about 20 years ago. There are anamorphically distorted images painted in chalk, which usually have a specific point of perspective from which one has to look at the image to enjoy the 3D effect. The real reason for this distorted form of representation comes from the fact that can be large, painted on the floor images usually shoot bad. In return, should the photographer for taking namely above the image are to scan it undistorted, as might be, for example, in a mural.

Using this technology road images can be created in which passers-by get the impression that there are actual, three-dimensional objects, which they believe they are seeing in front of you or even in the ground.

4D street painting

End of August 2010 a 4D streetscape was realized on the international street painters in Geldern competition for the first time. Through a specially developed perspective space-time geometry of the moving observer receives the illusion of apparent motion in the two -dimensional image. This geometry uses the interaction of the second, third and fourth dimension. ( see Related links )

Competitions

Free designs are rarely seen in the pedestrian zones, but there are certainly opportunities for street painters to present their work to an interested public. There are now numerous world competitions for street painters. An international street art contest, for example, held annually in late summer of the Lower Rhine city funds. This contest is valid since 1972 as a focal point of the German street painter scene and is a crowd puller.

A traditional competition takes place every year to the Assumption in the northern Italian Curtatone, Mantova, instead, in which only the Christian religion in question motives are admitted. But here free designs are welcome and often awarded the title Maestro Madonnaro.

In many competitions, there are different classes and among other things, a master class, mostly paint in about one / two dozen artists each other for the favor of the jury and the audience to the bet.

Since 2011, an international street art festival takes place in Wilhelmshaven. In August 2012, there were 37 street painters and street artists from all over the world as a guest. Also on the Valoisplatz in Jadestadt the largest 3D street view of the world was by Gregory Wosik, Lydia Hitzfeld, Melanie Siegel and Vanessa Hitzfeld painted.