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Painting: To paint the naked body. To create art.
The human canvas. Some artists feel that the practice
of adorning or transforming the human body, whether through
body painting, tattooing, piercing or reshaping, can be
traced back tens of thousands of years ago, as an expression
of art. The tradition of Body Painting is a venue of human
expression as old as recorded history. Unlike
tattoo and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary,
painted onto the human skin, and lasts
for only several hours, or at most (in the case of Mehndi or "henna
tattoo") a couple of weeks.
The 1960s supermodel Veruschka is often cited as being
many body painters' muse. Her images in the
book Transfigurations with
photographer Holger Trulzsch have frequently been emulated. Other
well-known works include Serge Diakonoff's books A Fleur de Peau and Diakonoff
and Joanne Gair's Paint a licious.
Since the early 1990s body painting has become more widely accepted in the
United States, and more and more body artists are beginning to come onto the
national community. Starting in late 2006 Sacramento art galleries started
to use fine art body painting as performance art to draw new patrons to its galleries
and festivals and in the same year, the first gallery dedicated exclusively to
fine art body painting was opened in New Orleans by World Body painting Festival
Champion and Judge, Craig Tracy. The Painted Alive Gallery is on Royal Street
in the French Quarte
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