This is true piece of art on human body
Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), full body tattoo and body painting.
More extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits. For example, one of Marina Abramovic’s works involved dancing until she collapsed from exhaustion, while one of Dennis Oppenheim’s better-known works saw him lying in the sunlight with a book on his chest, until his skin, excluding that covered by the book, was badly sunburned. It can even consist of the arrangement and dissection of preserved bodies in an artistic fashion, as in the case of the plastinated bodies used in the travelling Body Worlds exhibit.
Body art is also a sub-category of performance art, in which artists use or abuse their own body to make their particular statements.
In more recent times, body became a subject of much broader discussions and treatments that cannot be reduced to the body art in its common understanding. Important strategies that question the human body are: implants, body in symbiosis with the new technologies, virtual body etc. Scientific research in this area, for example that by Kevin Warwick, can be considered in this artistic vein. A special case of the body art strategies is the absence of body. The most important artists that performed the “absence” of body through their artworks were: Keith Arnatt, Andy Warhol, Anthony Gormley and Davor Džalto.
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March 23rd, 2009 at 8:19 PM
beautiful pics!
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:56 PM
excellent body art.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:05 AM
does it seem like all body art/modification/plutofication is aimed at the darker more pathetic side of people? Trying too hard. That may look fine and dandy on canvas, but a person just seems too LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!!!!
March 24th, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Great piece of Art.
Shows deep thoughts & imaginations
March 25th, 2009 at 5:20 AM
I did not much care for the darker ones, such as the ones with the safety pins, but otherwise, the rest are great, thoughtful, provocative and what i consider to be art! Since i have never been one to put much thought or care into art, so, coming from me, this is a very nice compliment. VERY well done.
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:31 AM
Cool. Thanks for sharing these photos.
April 5th, 2009 at 7:35 AM
While I love art in most, if not all of its forms I wonder what it is with body art. It seems very self indulgent and perhaps even fleeting. Unless you are naked most of the time it is only exhibited intimately. Not that I have anything against intimacy.
How long does it remain? How does the “canvas” feel?
Great work though. At least its personally rememberable. Bit like being at a concert. Fleeting. Take away your own memories and feelings perhaps. Certainly couldn’t hang it on the wall.
Thanks for the post.
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April 5th, 2009 at 9:31 AM
I enjoy all of these but i really like the dark ones or gothic if you will…. they show of man kinds depression, hate, and fear. Life is never as happy as death and this expresses it well.
April 5th, 2009 at 10:10 PM
My boner - she is so BIG!!
April 29th, 2009 at 9:10 PM
I wonder if art should not be defined by human form, not complicated by presenting the human form as artistic human canvas.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:57 AM
i hope it creat a good effect to know art….i also think it so helpful for us……………………
May 28th, 2009 at 7:40 AM
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June 27th, 2009 at 3:35 AM
Very beautiful. Human body is charming.
August 14th, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Astonishingly Beautiful
August 29th, 2009 at 11:10 AM
body art tattoos…
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September 25th, 2009 at 3:39 PM
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Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include…
September 26th, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Fantastic Body Art shared with us,There were some more light effect required to show it more effective.
November 13th, 2009 at 1:44 PM
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March 1st, 2010 at 1:10 PM
Who is all this art by?? does anyone know?