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Street painting at 2004 Sidewalk Arts Festival.

A street painter working in New York City.

A street painter working outside Centre Pompidou. Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971–1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement The painting being copied is Vermeer's Het meisje met de parel. Johannes or Jan Vermeer (baptized in Delft with the name Joannis on October 31 1632, and buried in the same city under the name Jan The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring ( Het Meisje met de Parel) is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer 's masterworks and as the

Street painting is the activity of rendering artistic designs on pavement such as streets, sidewalks, and town squares with impermanent materials.

Origin

Street painting has been recorded throughout Europe since the 16th century. Street painters in Italy are called madonnari (pronounced: mah-doan-are-ee with madonnaro being the singular form) because they often created pictures representing the Madonna. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Images of the Madonna and Madonna and Child are one of the central Icons of Christianity, representing the Madonna or Mary mother of Jesus

Historically, madonnari were itinerant artists who lived a life of travel and freedom. Aware of the festival and holy days (holidays) in each province and town, they traveled to join in the festivities. They created images in public squares and in front of the local church using bits of broken roof tiles, charcoal, and some white chalk. Chalk (ʧɔːk is a soft white porous Sedimentary rock, a form of Limestone composed of the Mineral Calcite. Passersby would often leave a bit of bread or olive oil for the artist along with an occasional coin. The artists were often commissioned to create votos and ex-votos, and after the festivities or with the first rain, both the painting and the painter would vanish.

For centuries madonnari were folk artists, reproducing simple images with crude materials. World War II disrupted their itinerant tradition and reduced their numbers. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including In 1972 the first International Street Painting Competition was held in Grazie di Curtatone, Italy. The purpose of the competition was to record and publicize the work of those considered to be the last practitioners of this traditional art form. The oldest of the painters were already in their 90s. Over the years, the competition has drawn younger painters and larger crowds. The festival remains popular and street painting festivals around the world are modeled on the event. The 1972 festival resulted in national recognition of the validity of the art form by the Superintendent of Culture. This recognition caused a whole new generation of street painters to emerge. Within a decade these artists were using high quality commercial and handmade pastels to create copies of well known masterpieces. Pastel is an Art medium in the form of a stick consisting of pure powdered Pigment and a binder

In 1982 Kurt Wenner an American artist, began street painting in Rome, Italy and by 1983 he had developed a new art form known as anamorphic or 3-dimensional street painting. Kurt Wenner born in Ann Arbor Michigan is an artist best known for his realistic Street painting and Chalk Murals using a projection Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Anamorphic format is a term that can be used either for the Cinematography technique of capturing a Widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film, or other In 1984 his unique invention was documented by National Geographic in their award winning film "Masterpieces In Chalk". Overview The NGS's historical mission is "to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge while promoting the conservation of the world's cultural historical and natural In this same year he won the title of Master Street Painter at the Grazie festival and in 1985 he created the first 3-dimensional street painting in the US at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art is an art museum located at 1130 State St

In 1987, Master Street Painters Kurt Wenner and Manfred Stader introduced the art of street painting to the Old Mission Santa Barbara, California. This was the first of numerous events throughout the United States that are modeled on the Italian festival at Grazie di Curtatone. Since this early introduction both traditional and 3-dimensional street painting have spread throughout the world. The innovative appeal of 3-dimensional street art has inspired many artists such as Julian Beever and Gary Palmer. Julian Beever Mountain Dew art photo by David Shankbonejpg|thumb| Mountain Dew advertisement in Union Square, New York by Beever viewed from the wrong angle

A recent development in the street painting art form in the twenty first century is the use of user generated video, blogging, and podcasting of street painting artists at all levels of ability and their fans worldwide. This new technological advance offers opportunity for all street painting, artists, festivals, and fans to allow a window not only to their latest image or festival appearance but a chance to let others know why they street paint and to encourage others – especially the younger generation of street painters to become known and grow in experience. Reaching the public in this way allows the performance aspects of street painting to be shared with many who do not readily have the opportunity to see street painting in person. An example of where you can find this new technology at work is on a new online community called the Street Painting Society.

One of the biggest street painting festivels in the country is the Youth in Arts Italian Street Painting Festival.

References

History of street painting

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