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Wild Scenics Pictures [ View fewer images per page ] Click here to show (or hide) search and display options [ For a large image and details: click on photo to stay in current window, click on photo ID to open new window.] Masterful 3D street art , from pioneering genius Kurt Wenner | Green Buzz - StumbleUpon Born in Ann Arbor, in Michigan, this truly pioneering artist is world renowned for realistic chalk murals and street paintings that give rise to fantastic optical illusions of three dimensionality, and are known in the art world as examples of the anamorphic style. So good are these 3d street art works that this man produces, that many of them have featured on TV and in many newspapers globally. image credits image credits Kurt was barely 16 years old, when commissioned to do his first portrait, an indication of just how talented he is as an artist, underlined by the fact that, within one year of that, he was already making a living doing graphic art. image credits In a radical lifestyle change in 1982, he quit his NASA post, put everything he owned up for sale, then simply headed out to Italy, wanting to study art at the home of artistic endevour. image credits image credits image credits image credits image credits image credits image credits

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