Street painting
Street painting , also called paving , refers to pictures painted with pastel chalk or color pigments on asphalt or other sealed surfaces.
General
Street painting is a very old form of street art . Because of the materials used, chalk or pigments applied with a brush , which are only lightly fixed on the road surface in rare cases , the result is only durable for a short time.
As a rule, the street painting artists finance themselves while they are working on the artworks with donations from passers-by.
Street painting is common around the world. A traditional place in Germany where street painters can almost always be found is, for example, the Cologne Domplatte . There is plenty of space on the large granite slabs in front of the cathedral to draw large pictures without obstructing the flow of passers-by. The subsurface and the location are relatively important for street painters, as not every place is suitable for painting appealing chalk pictures and at the same time still interesting enough passers-by, who give their work motivation and meaning through their comments and donations .
History of street painting
Although the history of street painting has been shown to span five centuries, little is known about its background and the changes it has undergone over time. It probably originated in Italy in the 16th century in the context of religious processions and celebrations in which religious motifs, in particular depictions of the Virgin Mary , were painted on the streets. The street painters also owe their name to religious motifs, which has remained unchanged in Italy to this day: Madonnari. This means that the secured findings are already exhausted; art historiography knows neither the names of individual Madonnari nor the reception history of this early form of art in public space.
Not much has changed in the more traditional direction of street painting to this day. In the pedestrian streets of the cities, most of the pictures painted on the pavement are copies of paintings that are deeply anchored in the collective consciousness. Botticelli , Rubens or Rembrandt van Rijn and other old masters are an integral part of the repertoire. Works of classical modernism or even contemporary painting , on the other hand, rarely belong to the motif pool of today's street painters, whose rather conservative aesthetic preferences depend on the recognition value and the painterly virtuosity that the original demands of them. There are quite large differences in the craft skills within this guild, but these are not hidden from passers-by either. You can inevitably see from a good painter that he understands his craft. Traditional street painting should also be viewed more as a handicraft and not as art.
Images of this kind also increased in California and a global street painting community began to develop, but whose few members saw themselves as "service providers in the name of Gaya " and began to swarm around the world to set colorful symbols in the city centers and thus to reach as large a number of people as possible with your messages. The time of the internet and the big festivals began , in which some artists were hired for events of all kinds and thus spread the non-traditional street painting worldwide, as well as made the 3D street painting popular.
3D street painting
3D street painting is a relatively new art form that first appeared on the sidewalks and squares in cities around the world about 20 years ago. They are anamorphically distorted pictures in chalk, which mostly show a special point of perspective from which the picture has to be viewed in order to enjoy the 3D effect. The real reason for this distorted form of representation stems from the fact that large pictures painted on the floor are usually difficult to photograph. To do this, the photographer would have to be above the image to take the picture without distortion, as one could, for example, with a mural .
This technology can be used to create street images in which passers-by get the impression that they are actual, three-dimensional objects that they think they see in front of them on or even in the ground.
Competitions
Free designs are rarely seen in the pedestrian zones, but there are certainly opportunities for street painters to present their work to an interested public. There are now numerous competitions for street painters around the world. An international street painting competition , for example, is organized annually in late summer by the Lower Rhine city of Geldern . The 750th anniversary of the city of Geldern was the reason for the first staging in 1979. He is considered to be the linchpin of the German street painting scene and is a crowd puller.
A traditional competition also takes place every year on the Assumption Day in Curtatone , northern Italy , in the province of Mantua , in which only motifs related to the Christian religion are permitted. But here, too, free designs are welcome and are often awarded the title Maestro Madonnaro .
In many competitions there are different classes and, among other things, a master class, in which usually around one or two dozen artists compete for the favor of the jury and the audience .
An international plaster painter festival has been taking place in Wilhelmshaven since 2011 . In August 2012, 37 street painters from all over the world were guests there. On the Valoisplatz in the Jade City, the largest 3D street picture in the world was painted by: Gregor Wosik, Lydia Hitzfeld, Melanie Siegel and Vanessa Hitzfeld.
Web links
- Link catalog on the topic of street art at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ ) (English)
- "A Brief History of Street Painting" (PDF; 192 kB)
- StreetArt Wilhelmshaven website
- 3D street painting
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.strassenmaler-jj.de/tip.htm
- ↑ 35th edition of the RP street painting competition online, July 25, 2013, accessed on April 15, 2014.
- ↑ StreetArt Wilhelmshaven website