Move Over, Avatar|几可乱真的3D街头涂鸦

Move Over, Avatar

by Matthew Brown

Three-dimensional street art offers mind-blowing pieces that make the ground look like it is collapsing below your feet.

Most graffiti can be seen on walls. Now, there's a different kind of graffiti that uses the actual street as a canvas and adds a whole new dimension. It's called 3D street painting, and it's out of this world.

Normal graffiti looks like a flat, two-dimensional picture, while three-dimensional paintings appear to be coming right out of the surface. Many people got to experience 3D animation at work in the hit movie, Avatar. With 3D street paintings, you don't even need special glasses.

Imagine walking up to a crack in the icy surface of the Earth. Go one step further and you'll fall into the freezing water hundreds of meters below. This is the kind of thrill you get when you see the incredible piece called The Crevasse by Edgar Mueller. Of course, you know it's just a painting. Mueller knows that your eyes can trick your mind, so the optical illusions he paints make you wonder for a moment if the ground has actually disappeared.

Mueller is a street artist from Germany, and he's one of the world's best-known 3D street painters. One Mueller creation makes a city street look as if it has been destroyed and left in burning chunks with an abyss below. Another features an enormous shark with its mouth open, bursting out of a brick floor and ready to seize visitors walking by. Using great skill and patience, Mueller, along with other talented 3D street artists, are making truly astonishing imagery and adding a new dimension to graffiti.

1.  According to the article, what is 3D graffiti?

(A) Paintings that are only found on walls.

(B) Paintings of the Earth from outer space.

(C) It's art using a certain number of colors on all surfaces.

(D) It's art that gives the illusion of being real and not flat.

2.  Which of the following is an example of an optical illusion?

(A) A machine with a hidden button.

(B) A picture of a shark devouring its prey.

(C) A shirt that has a tie printed on it to trick people.

(D) A person performing on the street.

3.  What is true of Edward Mueller's paintings?

(A) He got his inspiration from the movie, Avatar.

(B) Many people think they make a mess of the streets.

(C) They are usually done on canvas.

(D) They make people second guess what they see.

几可乱真的3D街头涂鸦

令人惊叹的 3D街头艺术作品让地面像是在你脚下崩解。

　　大部分涂鸦都是在墙壁上看到。现在，有另一种不同的涂鸦把街道当画布，让画作达到另一个境界。这称为 3D 街头涂鸦的艺术真的令人惊艳不已。

　　一般涂鸦看起来像平坦的平面画作，而 3D 作品看起来则像是要跃出地表一般。许多人都在卖座强片《阿凡达》中体验过 3D 动画。而要欣赏 3D 街头涂鸦，你根本不需要特殊眼镜。

　　想象走向结冰地表的裂缝。再往前一步你就会跌进好几百公尺下的冰冷水域中。这就是你看到艾德加‧穆勒的《冰山断崖》这个惊人作品时体验到的快感。当然，你晓得这只是画作。穆勒知道你的眼睛会欺骗你的大脑，所以他画出的视觉幻像会让你纳闷一下地面是不是真的消失了。

　　穆勒是德国的街头艺术家，也是世界知名的 3D 街头涂鸦大师之一。穆勒的其中 1幅作品让街道看起来像是被破坏一般，留下燃烧的大片残留物，底下还有个深渊。另 1 幅作品则是 1 只大鲨鱼张开血盆大口，从砖道上冲出来，准备咬住经过的路人。运用精湛的技巧和过人的耐心，穆勒和其他 3D 街头涂鸦艺术家创造出着实令人啧啧称奇的图像，让涂鸦艺术更上一层楼。

答案：1. (D)2. (C)3. (D)

曾经来台，同样身为 3D 街头涂鸦大师的 Kurt Wenner自 1982 年开始进行街头涂鸦，到 1984 年时已经是位出名的涂鸦大师。后来他从屋顶壁画的技巧中获得灵感，开始在水平的平面上创造出充满立体感的画作。Wenner的作品遍布各国，包括巴黎、日本、美国、意大利和加拿大等。

艺术家创作每个 3D 街头涂鸦所花的时间不定，但绝对需要相当大的耐心，而下雨也是他们作画时最不想碰到的天敌，因为即使一滴雨都会毁坏整个画作。（参考数据：http://www.kurtwenner.com）