Category: Body Art
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Unbelievable Body Paintings That Transform People Into Animals And Organs
Gesine Marwedel is a brilliant body painting artist based in Germany who creates both beautiful and terrifying pieces of art right on the models who serve as her living canvases. Marwedel is a master of painting on and with the human form – she can either emphasize it to work with her painting, or eliminate…
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Hyper-Realistic Body Painting Like You’ve Never Seen Before!
Alexa Meade thinks completely backwards. Most artists use acrylic paints to create portraits of people on canvas. But not Meade – she applies acrylic paints on her subjects and makes them appear to be a part of the painting! Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her innovative use of paint…
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Artist Brings More Life to Pregnant Bellies With Art!
“What Better way to celebrate such an exciting time in your life, than having a unique bespoke painting, that has been designed exclusively for you?” So says artist and Bump Painting Specialist Carrie Preston. According to Preston, a bump painting session takes about 2 hours to complete and the soon-mum-to-be can sit and relax while…
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NSFW: Swiss Performance Artist Attends Art Basel Without Clothes
When Bar Rafaeli appeared completely nude on the cover of Esquire, was it performance art? Possibly – she did have an actual artist named Stephen Victore paint the words of Stephen King on her body. Is the above photo? Absolutely, at least according to Milo Moire, a performance artist and psychologist based in Duesseldorff, Germany.…
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Stunning Examples of Animal Body Art
Many people feel an especially close connection with our animal brethren, which is probably a big part of why we find animal body art like this so appealing – these models, and the artists who paint on them, create a figurative representation of the relationship we share with all life. There are all sorts of…
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Artist Creates Amazing Freehand Tattoos On The Spot Without Any Sketches
For some, getting a permanent tattoo can be a huge commitment – it is, after all, for life. But what about a tattoo that you never even got to see before it was applied to your skin? Because that’s exactly what Jay Freestyle, a talented tattoo artist in Amsterdam, does – he creates his art…
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Artist Gets Tortured Like an Animal to Raise Awareness for Animal Cosmetics Testing
Following on from our previous post where a performance artist showed her lady parts in front of the painting “The Origin of the World” at the Musee d’Orsay (see HERE), another performance artist has gone to great lengths to make a point. A young woman was restrained, force-fed and injected with cosmetics in a high…
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The Artist Who Paints With Their Fingers Only… and is Bellissimo!
Southern Italian artist Paolo Troilo lives and works in Milan. Troilo’s explosive paintings are created without any brushes and instead he uses only his hands and jars of black and ivory acrylic paints. He consistently depicts himself as the only subject in his work. Troilo states that this change of technique occurred in 2004 when “I did…
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Artist Paints a Woman to Look Like a Parrot
It looks like a simple painting of a parrot perched on a tree stump, but take a closer look and a whole different story begins to emerge. The figure atop the log is in fact a female model who has posed for body-painting supremo Johannes Stoetter. A former body-painting world champion, the Italian artist takes his…
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Artist Shows Us What Celebrities Would Look Like Covered in Tattoos
In Chennye Randall’s ongoing series Shopped Tattoos, the Seattle-based artist imagines what celebrities, world leaders, and fictitious characters would look like if they were covered in tattoos. Not just a small one on the bicep, but designs on the collarbone, hands and face, and both arms. While we know that it’s Photoshopped, the manipulation is both…