This giant fissure was created in the German town of Geldern to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a street art competition. It took a team of artists five days, working 12 hours a day to complete.

The giant fissure, in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, spans over 250 square metres and appears to show an Ice Age fault. The image only makes sense from one point of perspective

Julian Beever has made pavement drawings for over ten years, working all over the world. The drawings have included both renderings of old masters plus a wealth of original inventive pieces of work.

Anamorphic illusions are drawn in a special distortion in order to create an impression of 3 dimensions when seen from one particular viewpoint.

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.

Kurt Wenner attended Rhode Island School of Design and Art Center College of Design before working for NASA as an advanced scientific space illustrator. Wenner eventually left NASA for Italy in order to pursue his love of classical art.

In 1984, Wenner invented an art form all his own that has come to be known as anamorphic or illusionistic street painting. The form of perspective known as anamorphism was used by the great European Masters to give the illusion of soaring architecture and floating figures in ceiling frescoes. Wenner adjusted this geometry to create compositions that seemed to rise from and fall into the ground.

International managers of the Bosch Group have a meeting in Bad Nauheim. Germany. A special surprise is the illusion of a construction where the worker is installing a heating system.

"I use whatever it takes. Sometimes that just means drawing a moustache on a girl's face on some billboard, sometimes that means sweating for days over an intricate drawing. Efficiency is the key".

Banksy is probably the most popular, yet most mysterious, urban street artist in the world. He has become an internationally known as a subversive graffiti artist and yet manages to maintain a secret identity.