Three-dimensional pavement paintings promoting a healthy lifestyle will continue to appear in the Russian capital's parks for Muscovites to admire, a city environmental official said.
A well-known 3D street artist from Germany, Edgar Mueller, offered Muscovites an unusual way of dealing with scorching heat this summer. He painted a rushing waterfall on the pavement near a large shopping mall in southwestern Moscow.
The illusion the artist created helps people find some imaginary escape from Moscow's heat, transporting them to a cooler place near water. To appreciate the scene in 3D, you need to look at it through a special lens installed next to the picture.
A scorching heat wave has gripped much of European Russia since mid-June, and wildfires in the tinder-dry countryside have shrouded many cities, including Moscow, in thick smoke.
"A 3D picture depicting a bridge under which a river bubbles recently appeared on the Vorobyovy Hills embankment," said Stepan Puchenin, deputy director of the department for specially protected natural areas in Moscow's Southwestern and Central administrative districts.
"The embankment was traditionally used as a race track, so the drawing itself is explained by its location," he said.
"Such 3D pictures impress city residents with their realistic features and spark their imagination," Puchenin said, adding that it took four artists from Germany one day to paint the embankment piece.
"Another 3D drawing, also made by German artists, appeared in late July in Serebryany Bor [a woodland in western Moscow] near the entrance to a children's park; in the future we also plan to paint other natural areas in this way," he said.
The official added that a 3D picture promoting sports is to appear soon in Bitsa nature park.
MOSCOW, August 13 (RIA Novosti)
