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What resulted was a new geometry that helps Wenner break down figurative walls between the art and the public. With each drawing, he tries to include three elements with which the public can interact. His last two pieces were displayed in Singapore and in Chile. "The classical tradition is awesome," Wenner says. "It's just amazing the implications in it and the abilities artists had by learning it." National Geographic documented Wenner's work in the 1980s with the film, "Masterpieces in Chalk." Wenner also has traced the history of the art form in his own book, "Asphalt Renaissance: The pavement art and 3-D illusions of Kurt Wenner." Wenner moved back to the United States after living in Italy for 25 years, where it's common for street painters known as madonnari to live off the donations of passers-by. Wenner helped revive and popularize the art form in street painting festivals around Europe and the United States. "This particular art form has all kind of uses, in a sense that it's so broad in the demographic, kinds of people it gives joy to and its applications," he said. "It's wonderful seeing it blossom into this global phenomenon." ___ If you go ... GRAND CANYON ILLUSION: National Geographic Visitor Center, Tusayan, Ariz.;
http://www.explorethecanyon.com/ or 928-638-2468. Free. Art on display through Oct. 31. Visitor center open from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. daily (all times MST). Near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, located 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) from the entrance to the park.
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