Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector
Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector are a pair of artists which originated in New York. Grays body is used as a canvas for Laura, who creates extraordinary paintings with special water based theatre makeup from berlin. They have visited the likes of the national gallery in Athens and the Victoria and Albert museum in London to find images hidden away from public view for a project called museum anatomy.
The body of work known as Museum Anatomy was began in 1996. Working alongside museum curators from museums in 12 countries, the artists search for pre-19th century paintings, which have been hidden or damaged, many existing in museum storage facilities. After selecting the hidden paintings, the artists create a new work of art, inspired by the original painting onto the human body using special effects make up. The acctual application of the make up onto Chadwicks body is documented with photography. The time taken to create each painting can range between 8 and 15 hours.The final photographs are enlarged and displayed as Contemporary art.
Gray has spent over 800 hours as a living still canvas. The painting they have re-created include some of the following;
Nell Gwyn as St Catherine - Sir Peter Lely
Judith with tge Head of Holofernes - Lucas Cranach the elder
Filippos Margaritis's painting of Sappho Praying to Aphrodite is seen (right), and painted on the body of Chadwick Gray (left)
Saint Agatha by Orazio Riminaldi is pictured (right) on Mr Gray and the painting (left)
La Modelo Aline Masson by Madrazo y Garreta is seen on the body (left) and the actual painting (right)
Leda and the Swan by Antonio Allegri da Correggio, painted on the body (left), the actual painting in Berlin, Germany (right)
Judith With The Head of Holofernes by Lucas Cranach the Elder is seen on Mr Gray's body (left) and the actual painting (right)
Lanna Woman (Wat Umong) (Above)
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Filippos Margaritis's painting of Sappho Praying to Aphrodite (above)
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