Blog 1 for contemporary art over Cave paintings and Graffiti Art

From the cave paintings in France to graffiti art on streets, there is another medium of art that artists use that everyone walks or drives on everyday. It is called three-dimensional pavement art. Pavement art is a unique art form where the artist uses chalk to draw on the pavement. Instead of graffiti artists using paint or spray paint to show their work in two-dimensional or three-dimensional format, pavement artist uses the chalk to show their work, but they have a certain illusion called anamorphosis that tricks the eye, if seen the right way, that shows the piece of art in a three-dimensional way. One artist, Julian Beever, is a pavement artist who does comical art. From Julian Beever’s official website, a viewer can tell how his art is fun to look at and question how to figure out how he designs the art. Most of his art is in landscape form that is sometimes connected to a wall or building. When he draws on the pavement, he will use the illusion by stretching a certain part of the character which gives it that form. Julian will also use the pavement to show depth by showing the pavement or sidewalk cracked around the drawing.  When he finishes his piece, he will incorporate a person with it to show the depth of the drawing and it gives it a greater view when the person shows action within the piece.There is many drawings from Julian Beever that people would give improvement, but one drawing that he did I loved. The pavement drawing is called “Taking the Plunge.” He incorporated the side of a building, the sidewalk, and stairs to create this wonderful three-dimensional drawing. This drawing shows a diving board connected to the building which is over a pier-like ocean area where the water flows down from the stairs like a waterfall. I love the way he shows depth in this drawing by the way he uses the atmosphere of the area plus using himself taking a dive from the diving board to dive into the water down below. Julian Beever is one pavement artist that is enjoyable and comes from the origins of early cave paintings and even graffiti art. I would think that one graffiti artist that would have introduced the pavement art is Akumi from the graffiti video we saw in class. Akumi was using paint to write his name on the streets for people to know who he is as an artist. Pavement artists would probably not just worship early artists but graffiti artists who introduced the new era a way to express themselves on the outside canvas.