Tag: body art
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Naked Body Painted Model Walks Through A Mall To See If People Notice
In a recent artistic experiment to see how much attention people actually pay to things going on around them, Jen The Body Painter and her daughter painted a model for about 3 hours to make a nice fall outfit. Besides pasties, a thong, and a hat/scarf, the model was basically naked! They walked through the mall to…
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A Collection of the Most Creative Body Art Ever Made
Body painting is an ancient and traditional form of artistic expression that has long existed in many tribal cultures. There is no doubt that the naked body is a perfect work of art on it’s own, but these artists have taken it one step further and turned the human form into an actual canvas! The natural shapes and curves of the human body served…
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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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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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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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The Invisible Man is Liu Bolin
Liu Bolin is an artist from China’s Shandong province. Born in 1973, he currently lives and works in Beijing. Bolin received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Shandong College of Arts in 1995 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2001. His work has been exhibited…
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Amazing Body Painting Turns Humans into Animals
While at first glance you think you’re seeing ordinary paintings of animals on canvas, look a little closer and you’ll notice that the canvases are actually naked human beings. Shannon Holt is a body painter based in Florida who has the incredible ability to transform the human body into a canvas for art. In the Florida…
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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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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…