Category: Body Art
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Plus-Sized Yogi is Changing the Face of Fitness on Instagram
Plenty of fitness gurus share their workout regimen on Instagram, but 27-year-old Jessamyn Stanley might be the most inspiring of them all. This plus-sized yogi is showing the world that she’s just as capable as other yoga enthusiasts by sharing images of her incredible feats of strength and flexibility. Through her Instagram account, Stanley elicits a powerful…
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Hush Shows Us What East Meets West Looks Like, Street Art Style
When we last saw Hush, he generously donated a work which artFido cut out of the gallery wall and raised $13,500 for Challenge, an organisation which assists kids with cancer and their families (see HERE). There was such strong bidding on this charity piece – not just because it was raising money for a great cause – but also…
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Clown Portraits By Eolo Perfido That Are the Stuff of Nightmares
If you’re like us, ‘normal-looking’ clowns scare us half to death. So when we came across Eolo Perfido‘s latest works, we were positively petrified! The series is titled Clownville, and features grotesque portraits of nightmare-inducing clowns. Perfido says he was inspired by silent film stars like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, who were forced to exaggerate their…
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Artist Transforms Human Hands into All Kinds of Animals
Guido Daniele is an award-winning artist from Soverato, Italy. Born in 1950, Daniele lives and works in Milan. Over his 40+ year career, Guido has done both commercial/advertising work as well as group and solo exhibitions around the world. In 1990 he began to explore and experiment with body and hand painting. By having his models…
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Breast Cancer Survivor’s Scars Beautifully Concealed by Tattoo Artist
Since 2010, David Allen has been tattooing women who have undergone mastectomies. Typically recreating the nipple shape, mastectomy tattoos have been around for some time. David’s work, however, uses design principles to draw attention away from the scarring by tattooing images of flowers and other flora. This process has quickly become a new, viable option to…
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Look Again: This Chameleon is Actually Two Painted Women
Johannes Stötter, an incredibly talented bodypaint artist from Italy, has created a video to show us exactly how his amazing illusory body art “unfolds,” showing us the full transition from the chameleon we think we see in his art to the two painted women that actually compose the image. It took Stötter 4 hours to…
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#ImNoAngel Lingerie Campaign Illustrates That Every Kind of Body is the Perfect Body
Move over Victoria’s Secret. Lane Bryant just won the prize for sexiest campaign of 2015. The plus-size brand launched its #ImNoAngel advertisements on Monday, featuring models Ashley Graham, Marquita Pring, Candice Huffine and more. The women, styled in Lane Bryant’s exclusive bra collection Cacique, define “sexy” in numerous ways during the ad. They’re also using social media to further challenge conventional beauty standards. Forget Victoria’s…
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A Vagina From the 19th Century Sparks French Lawsuit Against Facebook
A 149-year-old vagina is at the center of a legal dispute involving France, Facebook, and online censorship. If you’ve been an avid follower of artFido’s arty posts, you’ll recall that we posted an article mid last year about Luxembourgian artist Deborah de Roberti who transformed Gustave Courbet’s famous painting, l’Origine du Monde, into performance, by revealing her own…
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Body Painting Turns Torsos into Mind-Bending Optical Illusions
Amazingly, these mind-bending optical illusions aren’t made with the help of projections or Photoshop. Artist Natalie Fletcher painted them directly on human skin! The Oregon-based body painter created this impressive series completely freehanded with an airbrush. She calls it Just an Illusion, and the “canvases” feature bright base colors of fuchsia, cyan, green, and yellow. Black…
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Performance Artist Walks Naked Through Gallery Holding a Baby For Art?
There’s a clear theme running through the works of performance artist Milo Moiré… nakedness. We’ve previously seen her sans clothes in her controversial work “Plop Egg” where she inserted eggs into her vagina to create a plop artwork (see HERE), and we followed her as she walked to Art Basel with the names of her outfit…