Thursday, November 11, 2010

The Human Body as Art

Art is not just defined as a work of art with the addition of color, paint or figurines it also can be known for having human bodies to help portray your creative ideas. One guy that is known for having human bodies featured in his work is Spencer Tunick. Spencer is an American artist that is known for his installations of large numbers of nude people posing in artistic positions. These installations are often in urban locations around the world but he has created some woodland and beach works also. Tunick is the subject of three HBO documentaries. His models do not get paid and for helping in his work they get a photo of the work they were in.
 

Gillian Wearing an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artist, and winner of the British award The Turner Prize in 1997. Gillian also used human bodies as a form of art in her campaign she made in New York. Wearing would stop people walking on the street and ask them to write down something on their mind on a sign and hold it while she took a picture.  This campaign helped to show what people were going through and was a unique way of doing this.



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