Who doesn’t know this guy? Well more than likely you all don’t know him, but everyone has to be familiar with his work.
Julian Beever is a British artist that began his pavement art as a way to fund his trips that he loved to go on. He started his 3 dimensional or “anamorphic” pavement drawings in the early 90’s simply because he was curious about chalk and loved that medium.
"I got started when I was in a pedestrian street in Brussels where an old garden had been removed. This left an unusual rectangle of paving slabs which gave me the idea to convert this in to a drawn swimming pool in the middle of the high street! It worked so well I tried other variations such as a well with people falling in. I soon realized that if you could make things appear to go into the pavement you could equally make them appear to stand out of it." says Beever.
Since the early 2000’s he has gain a lot of publicity and praise thanks to the internet and some people dub him as “the Pavement Picasso”. His works are extraordinarily complex and display a great deal of skill, yet are hilariously funny with their subject matter.
Posted By Keola Tan
Comments:
I remember seeing this a few years ago and thinking it was brilliant! I feel like street art is becoming increasingly popular and has definitely gained more respect as a serious art form. Sure some street art forms are debatable and not always even intended to be seen as art, but more an more artists have started using the cityscape as their canvases, bringing art into people's everyday lives and making it available to everyone. In a sense these artists are cutting out the "middle man", the galleries and art critiques who typically decide what art is and what the public should be viewing as art, and instead letting passerby's decide for themselves. At the same time they also challenge the idea of who can be an artist, making it possible for anyone to share their ideas and creativity with the public.
-Sofia Mustelin
Julian Beever is a British artist that began his pavement art as a way to fund his trips that he loved to go on. He started his 3 dimensional or “anamorphic” pavement drawings in the early 90’s simply because he was curious about chalk and loved that medium.
"I got started when I was in a pedestrian street in Brussels where an old garden had been removed. This left an unusual rectangle of paving slabs which gave me the idea to convert this in to a drawn swimming pool in the middle of the high street! It worked so well I tried other variations such as a well with people falling in. I soon realized that if you could make things appear to go into the pavement you could equally make them appear to stand out of it." says Beever.
Since the early 2000’s he has gain a lot of publicity and praise thanks to the internet and some people dub him as “the Pavement Picasso”. His works are extraordinarily complex and display a great deal of skill, yet are hilariously funny with their subject matter.
Posted By Keola Tan
Comments:
I remember seeing this a few years ago and thinking it was brilliant! I feel like street art is becoming increasingly popular and has definitely gained more respect as a serious art form. Sure some street art forms are debatable and not always even intended to be seen as art, but more an more artists have started using the cityscape as their canvases, bringing art into people's everyday lives and making it available to everyone. In a sense these artists are cutting out the "middle man", the galleries and art critiques who typically decide what art is and what the public should be viewing as art, and instead letting passerby's decide for themselves. At the same time they also challenge the idea of who can be an artist, making it possible for anyone to share their ideas and creativity with the public.
-Sofia Mustelin