Street Art: Edgar Mueller

Edgar Mueller is a famous German 3D street artist. He uses the street to give the inhabitants a new perspective on a common view they would normally take for granted…

Edgar Müller’s studio is the street. He paints over large areas of urban public life and gives them a new appearance, thereby challenging the perceptions of passers-by. The observer becomes a part of the new scenery offered. While going about their daily life, people change the painting’s statement just by passing through the scene.

Mueller was born in 1968 and grew up in Germany. He entered a street art competition at the age of 16. At age 19 he won said competition with a copy of the famous “Jesus at Emmaus” by Caravaggio. Since 1998 Mueller has held the title of master street painter, a prestigious award given to him by the world’s largest street painting festival, The Grazie Festival held in the small town of Grazie, Italy.

Since the age of 25, Mueller has devoted himself completely to street art and has taught workshops and was a co-organizer for numerous street-painting festivals. His artwork has brought him great media and public attention. And now, I hope you enjoy a bit of his fantastic work.

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Together with up to five assistants, Mueller painted all day long from sunrise to sunset. The picture appeared on the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, as part of the town’s Festival of World Cultures.
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Mueller spent five days, working 12 hours a day, to create the 250 square metre image of the crevasse, which, viewed from the correct angle, appears to be 3D. He then persuaded passers-by to complete the illusion by pretending the gaping hole was real.
“I wanted to play with positives and negatives to encourage people to think twice about everything they see,” he said. “It was a very scary scene, but when people saw it they had great fun playing on it and pretending to fall into the earth. I like to think that later, when they returned home, they might reflect more on what a frightening scenario it was and say, “Wow, that was actually pretty scary.”
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Mueller, who has previously painted a giant waterfall in Canada, said he was inspired by the British ‘Pavement Picasso,’ Julian Beever, whose dramatic but more gentle 3D street images have featured in the Daily Mail.
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Watch the making of The Crevasse (the first three pictures from the top) in fast-forward.

I really hope you liked this little presentation. Personally, I was floored when I first saw these photos. The man is amazing.
All photos come from Edgar Mueller’s personal website: http://www.metanamorph.com where you can find more photos and information. The photos with captions come from a forwarded email, whose author is unknown.

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