Video: Chalk Festival 2009 in Pasadena
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Celebrating its 17th anniversary, the Pasadena Chalk Festival has opened its arms this year to 600 artists who have come to express their creative visions on the sleek sidewalk of the Paseo Colorado, transforming it into a canvas of hundreds of different chalk paintings. The world's largest street painting event lasted for two days - June 20-21, during which 25,000 crayons were used.
A variety of styles found expression in street paintings and a wide variety of topics were touched upon: here we will meet both classics and modernity, fantasy and fairy-tale themes, there were paintings on social and political themes. Both individual artists and whole groups of street artists, as well as groups representing art schools, museums and cultural centers, worked. A prestigious cultural event in Europe, North and South America brought together creative people of different nationalities and lovers and connoisseurs of street art who came just to watch the birth of bright chalk paintings.
In addition to the unique opportunity to observe the work of street art masters, the guests had a chance to participate in the creative process themselves. The CHALKLAND drawing area was specially allocated for children, where little artists could try themselves as young creators.
At the end of the festival, artists were awarded prizes for the best painting, the best technique of execution, the best use of color, the best three-dimensional image and many, many other awards to encourage artists to come back again and again and reach great heights in street art.
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