{"id":14466,"date":"2003-11-20T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/kurt-wenner\/"},"modified":"2003-11-20T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T18:34:00","slug":"kurt-wenner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/kurt-wenner\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Wenner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodger.com\/wenner\/images\/pic-absolute.jpg\" title=\"larger version of Absolut Wenner\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Absolut Wenner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/absolutwenner.jpg\" \/><\/a>Kurt Wenner is an accomplished artist known mainly as a &ldquo;master street painter&rdquo; whose<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>anamorphic paintings&hellip;create a special pictorial geometry that corrects the distortion caused by viewing his monumental images on the pavement from an oblique angle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodger.com\/wenner\/\" target=\"_blank\">His website<\/a> has a lot of interesting biographical info as well as a gallery of some of his work.  I came upon this site from <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walk.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">J-Walk Blog<\/a> and thought his work was very cool.  However, I totally forgot that I had already seen his artwork somewhere:  Absolut commissioned him to make an ad in 1996 which I now distinctly remember; it can be seen to the right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106935327924030582?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Wenner is an accomplished artist known mainly as a &ldquo;master street painter&rdquo; whose anamorphic paintings&hellip;create a special pictorial geometry that corrects the distortion caused by viewing his monumental images on the pavement from an oblique angle. His website has a lot of interesting biographical info as well as a gallery of some of his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/kurt-wenner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kurt Wenner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}