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Arguably, the appearance of humans, culture, and nature has been a central theme throughout art for millennia. Some may even argue that these themes have gone hand in hand with art since forever. These themes are not only durable, as they are frequent, too; in fact, they are so frequent that it's hard to come up with something original, unexhausted, and refreshing.
This is where the works of Gesine Marwedel come into play. She blends the themes of human appearance, nature, and animals all into one, and centers them around the human body itself. She creates these fantastic body paintings that resemble anything from an animal to an abstraction, and does so with elegance and mastery that's hardly ever matched. She blends the images with the human body so well, that it's sometimes hard to even see the "canvas."
She has shared with us how it all started, and what she draws inspiration from: "I always painted on canvas and put some photos on the internet. A photographer (Thomas van de Wall) saw them and asked me to paint a face. That's how it started. I am inspired by poses, by colors, by animals and nature... sometimes I just see something and an idea immediately comes into my mind."
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Mary Tonningsen 4 years ago
William, try to picture a pregnant woman kneeling, her butt on her feet, with her left side to you. Her left arm is bent, with her hand on top of her head. Her right arm is stretched out straight in front of her. Her straight arm is the seahorse's nose, the left arm is the seahorse's head. The rest of her body is painted to look like the body of a seahorse. When you get to the hip/buttocks are, the 'tail' starts curling forward, with the end of it painted on her upper thigh. The parts without light-colored paint are painted black to blend in with the background, but you can see a few parts if you look really closely such as her left knee - it's a little lighter black than the background. Same with her head and almost half of her left breast. A very creative use of a pregnant body!! :)
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AchillesHeel 4 years ago
'Nowadays, people aren't interested in art that isn't tattooed on fat guys' - Fururama lol
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Christina Smith 4 years ago
Gosh I give props to the model for having to stand like that until the painting was done goodness it hurts me to image it
Anna820 x 4 years ago
I don't know if she had to stand like that for so long , the artist probably had already done concept sketches and knew where everything should be and then the model took the pose she should have and everything got shape. My point is she painted it first on her then she took the pose
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John Q Citizen 4 years ago
The key to this one is the bank of sand in front. But I'm still befuddled. Maybe more than one person? I see a left arm and maybe the point of the shell is painted on someone's right hip? And did they tie string around the leg to make the spiral more realistic?
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John Q Citizen 4 years ago (edited)
I give. I cannot make out the human body/bodies in this one. Well done!
John Q Citizen 4 years ago
Wait-- I think this is just a painted horse. No?
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William Faulk 4 years ago
oh wow! but think, all the time used making these is gone after the picture...
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John Q Citizen 4 years ago
I love that they used the natural environment for several of these! This took some planning.
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FunK_One 4 years ago
And the author's name on that book is actually the artist's name. LOL What a great bit of humor and what a gorgeous illusion!
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Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
Excellent! I wish we could do this type of skin camouflage naturally...
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John Q Citizen 4 years ago
Fun to play with the screen brightness on this one. Started with my screen low and couldn't see anything but the animal. Had to get all the way to full maximum brightness to figure most of them out.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
This reminds me of the TV series "Skin Wars." I'd love to see that return.
John Q Citizen 4 years ago
Fun to play with the screen brightness on this one. Started with my screen low and couldn't see anything but the animal. Had to get all the way to full maximum brightness to figure most of them out.
Freya the Wanderer 4 years ago
This reminds me of the TV series "Skin Wars." I'd love to see that return.
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