Body art

Body art is art made on, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but also includes scarification, branding, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), and body painting.

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More extreme body art can involve mutilation, or in some way pushing the body to its limits. One of Marina Abramovic's works, for example, consisted of her 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 the skin not covered by the book was badly sunburnt. It can even consist of preserved bodies arranged and dissected in an artistic fashion, as in the case of the plastinated bodies used in the travelling Body Worlds exhibit.

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Tattoo: :For the unrelated Military music tattoo, a parade, see Edinburgh Military Tattoo....

Body piercing: Body piercing usually refers to the piercing of a part of the human body for the purpose of wearing jewelry in the opening created. Body piercing is a form of body modification. The word "piercing" can refer to the act or practice of body piercing, or to a specific pierced opening in the body....

Scarification: Scarification is a permanent body modification that uses scar tissue produced by the body to form designs, pictures, or words in the skin. Scars are most often formed by cutting or branding the skin. Scarification is sometimes called cicatrization (from the French equivalent)....

Body art related Images and Photos (experimental)

Body of Art 2012 Wall Calendar	Clean Body : The Humble Art of Zen-Cleansing Yourself (Hardcover)	Clean Body The Humble Art of Zen-Cleansing Yourself (Book)	Art
Body Slam	Body Heat (BD)	Body Shots (DVD)	Art Expo (green)
Art Attack	Body Language (DVD)	The Body	Heavenly Body, The (1944) (DVD)