Is there a relationship between image and word in your work? Only that between the image and the title. What made you decide to do the street art thing?
I left art college and worked in the street doing Punch and Judy. It was a progression from one kind of street performance to another. Who were the artists you looked up to when starting out? Before doing « 3D » illusions I often drew reproductions of old masters in the street— da Vinci, Durer, Raphael, Rosetti, - beautiful pictorial stuff created before the 20th century movements undermined this kind of vision.
Do you use mathematics or computer programmes to plan out your drawings? Hardly ever. I do it almost entirely by eye. While making the pieces outside there are always people walking by and talking to you, how is that working like that? It allows me to meet local people in foreign countries which is not always so easy when you go as a tourist. When I get in to difficulties on a drawing and I feel incompetent it can be embarrassing having a crowd witness this.
At those moments I would rather be alone! Do you have a personal favorite Anamorphosis sidewalk piece? If so, which and why? Meeting Mr. Frog has a very good interaction between my daughter and the illusion of the frog and it serves also as a family souvenir. Why do you continue creating chalk art instead of moving to a more permanent medium for Anamorphosis?
That may be something I will move toward but I like the size, speed and freedom permitted in the streets using chalk. This is the most frequent of all questions! Only if it is unfinished and has not been properly photographed. This does happen occasionally. For me the end product is the photograph and the chalk on the ground only a vehicle. While this lasts only a matter of days and may be seen by a few hundred people, a photo on the internet will last forever and may be seen by millions.
Do you have to obtain permits for every sidewalk project? So if a passerby views the work from that same perspective, the drawings jump to life in their three-dimensional glory. But if they stand from any other position, the chalk creation appears to be elongated fragments of an incomplete design. He prides himself on the public appeal of his work and credits the Internet for bringing his street art to the world stage. We love the magic of these 3D imaginations and especially enjoy all the children who were put in chalky peril to make these photographs even better.
Street artist Julian Beever is known all over the world for his pavement drawings, more especially his 3D illusions, drawn in a special distortion to create an impression of 3D when seen from one particular viewpoint. 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.
Some have dubbed him "the Pavement Picasso" but he says that although this is flattering, his work has little in common with the Spanish Master except perhaps in the fact that Picasso too was interested in 3 dimensionality in his Cubist period. Each drawing must be seen from one special viewpoint and if the viewer moves from it the illusion is lost and the drawing becomes an unrecognizable distortion.
Pavement drawings. A book about Julian Beever. Biography Born Cheltenham, UK
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