Meaning of Body Art

For years now people have been using the human figure as a canvas, as proven by these various examples of people using their bare skin to help create realistic and unusual works of art .

Full Body Painting

 

It is part of the childhood experience to have your face painted at a carnival or festival. Nowadays, those same carnival artists have developed their craft and can now create face paintings and body paintings that trick the eye into thinking that what they are viewing is real. Sports Illustrated has even made it a recurring part of their content to cover their beautiful models in body paint that resembles swimsuits.

Body painting has also been used to create anything from illusive optical illusions, advertising for major products, publicity stunts or just used to freak people out completely. How much would you be willing to bare for a body painting?

3D Carving Graffiti Body Art

Graffiti Body Art is a ‘Raw’ urban art form that has spread to all corners of the world. It started many years ago in France with Street Graffiti writers painting their letters and names on their girlfriends as a mark of adoration and since then it has now spread world wide especially popular in Latin America, Europe and Australia. The art-form is referred to by many as ‘Graffiti on Girls’.

3D Graffiti Body Art

The ‘hollow leg’ image above went viral earlier this year, but with no credit attached to this it was thought to have been a photo-shopped image. However we can confirm this is not the case. The 3D Carved leg was created by Russian Graffiti artist, Znag. We have been in touch with Znag who has sent us some more photos of his impressive 3D work.

Like many Graffiti Body Painters Znag uses an artist paint pen to create his works and although this choice of medium will certainly create debate among many professional body artists, the images themselves are impressive non the less and Znag is certainly ‘carving‘ himself out a niche