Manfred Stader

Master of 3d-Street Painting -

Sidewalk Chalk Art -

Pavement Painting

Manfred Stader began street painting, pavement art during his art studies at the famous Städel Artschool in Frankfurt, at the beginning of the 1980s and in 1985 he already became one of the few master street painters. Master Madonnaro..a title which is awarded by the largest international street painting competition in Grazie di Curtatone in Italy. Pavement Painting Contest. Pavement drawings, sidewalk chalk art, done by artists comming from all over the world. Strassenmaler like Edgar Mueller or a street painter like Kurt Wenner or pavement artists like Julian Beever.Through the study of anamorphosis, which has been used in the painting of the Renaissance and Baroque to produce more optical height and width he developed a new form of street art, the 3d Street Painting in order to produce 3-dimensional impressions on a 2-dimensional horizontal Area, the asphalt.

This new art form of street painting has become important all over the globe and is disseminated by numerous artists. It is admired at street painting festivals and at promotional events.

Stader combines the "folk"- art of the street painters wich began in the 16th Century in Italy with the modern perception of illusion painting of the 21st century using pastel chalk. This art appeals a very large audience.

The most popular variant of his art as a street painter are the interactive projects - interactive street art - where admirers pose in logical connection with the pavement art image to get photographed or filmed.

The brand new variant of pavement drawing is the XXL version of 3d street painting like the latest work of Edgar Mueller. Mostly done directly onto the asphalt by using acrylic paints. An example for this kind of 3d pavement art you can find at the the top of this site as XXl - Schiphol waterfall.

Since we´ve had no chance to do the street painting right onto the pavement at Schiphol airport we´ve been using plasterboard to put our 3d street painting on. This material is very efficient to work on and it is not expensive.

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