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Anamorphosis

Julie forwarded me some examples of the "pavement" artist, Julian Beever.

http://www.thepuzzlefactory.com/2006_chalk.cfm

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfn8Dz_13Ms&mode=related&search=

This type of representation is called "anamorphosis"---and has been used since the Renaissance: a really famous example is Holbein's "The Ambassadors" (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/holbein/ambassadors.jpg.html)--you can only see the skull in the foreground if you crouch down to the side of the painting (it's in the National Gallery in London).

Posted by James Boyd-Brent on February 16, 2007 12:39 PM |

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Those chalk drawings are CRAZY! glad he included a few off-angle shots as well, or I'd have no reference as to how they were made.
Batman and Robin was my favorite.
I wonder how a person creating this type of work is able to visualize and distort the image while working on it. Seems like a giant leap to me. Pretty darn amazing.

Posted by: Kristin Helle | February 26, 2007 10:18 AM

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