Reading Test - Pavement Chalk Art - Riess

The colors and lines and a slight accident in a railway station create

a feeling of movement and make the image seem real because the colors are dark, forming shadows or a sense of depth.

elements

a part or aspect of something, in art, elements include: color, perspective, shadow, distortion, etc.

Color and shadow work together to give the whole image

a sense of depth.

When seen from one special angle, these images

come together to create the illusion that his anamorphic drawings are truly 3 dimensional viewed this way, his drawings seem to come to life.

Beever chooses to draw on sidewalks so that

everyone can have access to his art.

This makes the stairs look thinner the

farther they seem to get from the viewer.

Colors and shadows are used by Beever to create the

illusion that we are seeing something real.

He says, "My work appeals to literally the

man (and woman) in the street and is not confined in galleries or limited by the gallery system."

Artists can use color to create

mood and to create images that imitate life.

One way Beever creates perspective is through his use

of lines.

anamorphic

producing, relating to, or marked by intentional distortion of an image. (an extreme form of perspective that relates in some distortion

Notice how the colors Beever uses at the top of the frog

seem brighter.

In the second drawing, the depth is going downward creating a

sense of calm.

He uses shadow or

shading at the bottom of the drawing where the frog sits on the lily pad.

Beever chooses this style of art and creates in public spaces because

so everyone can see it without going to an art museum.

Both drawings create the illusion of depth, but the drawings are different in that

the depth is going downward causing it to feel like it is moving for the first drawing.

audience

the group of people who would view an artist's work

message

the idea or point that artist want to convey through their art

perspective

the technique that artist use to give the illusion of 3 dimensional space on a two dimensional surface

Beever has developed a special technique of using distortion

to equally magnify images in his work.

Beever uses thick and thin as well as long and short lines

to frame the stairway

Julien Beever creates

unusual chalk drawings on public sidewalks.