art body painting festival

A model is less than the annual World Body Painting Festival in Poertschach, Austria, July 2 ,2011. World Bank body painting festival in Austria is the largest art exhibition in bodypaiting theme. Since its inception in 1998, visitors flocked to the event to admire the wild works by artists from over 40 nations worldwide. Tens of thousands of visitors attended the 2011 event in Portschach along Lake Worth near the state capital, Klagenfurt.





A painted model standing for photographers on the last day of the World Body Painting Festival 2011 on July 3, 2011 in Poertschach, Austria. The festival has been going since 1998 and this year drew the body painting artists from 40 different nations. The artist paints a nude human body, but the body is often covered with a very brief bikini, or a G-string Among other things, a large body painting work is measured by how successful the artist hides the private parts of the subject.

Before the main days WBF-Academy organizes a wide range of workshop classes and demonstration programs. Photo shooting workshops, digital art and special programs that Nikon will be available for photographers.

The festival week from 27 June to 3 July contained

• WBF Academy
• Body Circus and side events
• The main day "body paint City"

art body painting festival

Body painting Japan

Japanese Human Body Painting Art

Japanese Human Body Painting Art

Japanese body painting

Korean Body Painting Model

Korean Body Painting Model

Korean Body Painting Model

Korean Body Painting Model

Several artists used male models - just as interesting a canvas, but their modeling / posing skills needed some work. The Spiderman pose is OK, but posing as a bodybuilder is a little silly unless you have a body that's been built

Lisa Berczel Body Painting Festival in Daegu, South Korea

Lisa Berczel Body Painting Festival in Daegu, South Korea

Lisa Berczel Body Painting Festival in Daegu, South Korea

Lisa Berczel Body Painting Festival in Daegu, South Korea

Lisa Berczel Body Painting Festival in Daegu, South Korea

The term 'international' in Korea does not necessarily mean an international crowd. Quite a few special guests and competitors, however, were from beyond Korea's borders. Above is one of the American artists brought in as a special guest, Lisa Berczel. Surprisingly, she was one of the few artists to have any sort of promotional / marketing material - and thus is one of the few names I can associate with the artwork.

It's worth noting that rent-a-cop-style 'security' attempted to keep photographers from taking pictures of people in a public space. These ever-courteous 'officers' made the universal hands-crossed-in-an-X sign along with the hand-in-the-front-of-the-camera hand in an attempt to keep photographers at bay. The hilarious result was a cat-and-mouse game of photographers - with long telephoto lenses used to getting the shot through the crowd - and security personnel unsure of what exactly the rules were. Outnumbered by photographers perhaps ten-to-one, they were assisted by volunteers who stayed with some artists.

The choice of giving the photographers a hard time or giving them carte blanche seemed to be left up to the artist. Thankfully, more than a few of the models were happy to smile for photo.