World Bodypainting Festival 2017 Videos And Pictures
Men and women transform their bodies into beautiful and bizarre works of art at the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria
Models were transformed into stunning works of art, monsters and nightmarish entities for a world-class bodypainting festival.
Men and women endured waits of up to six hours in their quest to become elaborate human canvases in an Austrian town this weekend, as the 2017 World Bodypainting Festival and world championships got under way.
The event sees participants decorated not just in paint, but in elaborate latex makeup, creating appearances that would not be out of place in a science fiction film.
On Friday, some of the human exhibits included a scaly-skinned woman with an animal skeleton headdress, another with multiple sets of horns, while the more reserved were semi-naked, painted with butterflies, apes and flowers.
Astonishing pictures from the event captured the surreal transformations that models painstakingly underwent for the World Bodypainting Festival in Austria
Nothing was off limits for the festival as models metamorphosed into wonderfully weird works of art after up to six hours of waiting for artists to finishing adorning their bodies
Highly skilled artists transformed the patient models into everything from angelic-looking entities to daemonic creatures from another world
Some of the end results were genuinely frightening and nightmarish such as this woman who is clad in twisted metal and donning a gothic crown
This man has been transformed into a bright and colourful representation of Africa. A lion is emblazoned on his abdonmen and a Gazelle has been detailed onto his leg
The event sees participants decorated not just in paint, but in elaborate latex makeup, creating appearances that would not be out of place in a science fiction film
Many of the models’ appearances completely defied definition. This woman struck and unsettling glance while dress in her bizarre and beautiful costume
The vision of leopard beams forward from this model’s head while the rest of her body has been covered in bright and colourful bodypaint
Some of the human exhibits included a scaly-skinned woman with an animal skeleton headdress, another with multiple sets of horns, while the more reserved were semi-naked, painted with butterflies, apes and flowers
Karen Dinger (right), from Germany, said’My painting is called ‘Utopia’ and stands for a world in which all dreams come true,’ said artist and third-time participant Karen Dinger from Germany’
The weird and wonderful world of bodypainting masters knows no boundaries. This man has was appears to be Dracula’s head peering out from above her head
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‘My painting is called ‘Utopia’ and stands for a world in which all dreams come true,’ said artist and third-time participant Karen Dinger from Germany.
Her painting and costume, which took six hours to create, features heart-shaped red and white wings that stretch from the model’s head to knee-level and a painted moon on the leg.
The three-day festival, which is in its 19th year, sees 60 artists from over 50 countries take part, and competitions in 13 separate categories including special effects bodypainting, brush and sponge painting and ultraviolet effects.
The three-day festival, which is in its 19th year, sees 60 artists from over 50 countries take part, and competitions in 13 separate categories
Some of the models appearances are enhanced using special effects bodypainting, brush and sponge painting and ultraviolet effects
While some of the works are rich in painstaking levels of detail, others are relatively simplistic, like these two models who are covered in small amounts of bodypaint
This wasp-man seems to have a cannabis lead attached to his back. The strange and bizarre works of art created at the festival know no boundaries
Many of the models endured hours of preparation as highly-skilled artists completely transformed them into creatures from other worlds
This model poses with her bodypainting designed by Michele Di Giovanni from Italy during the 20th World Bodypainting Festival 2017
A model poses with her bodypainting designed by Naja Hluchovsky of Austria for a picture during the weird and wonderful World Bodypainting Festival
The model on the left strikes and elegant pose while covered in dazzlingly bright colours and wearing an elaborate design on her head. The model on the right is posing with her bodypainting designed by bodypainting artist Meona J Weaner from South Korea
The amazingly intricate design of this piece on top of the model’s head resembles a flight of butterflies
This bizarre and eerie design on the left shows a skeletal cat perched on top of the models head. The model to the right is entwined in cobwebs
The model in this picture resembles a walking thunderstorm. Bright blue streaks of lightening cross her face while nothing more than cotton wool has been used to achieve the resemblance of clouds
On Friday, some of the human exhibits included a scaly-skinned woman with an animal skeleton headdress, another with multiple sets of horns, while the more reserved were semi-naked, painted with butterflies, apes and flowers
The gloomy weather seemed appropriate for many of the more bizarre-looking designs
Spectacular imagery as human body becomes a work of art
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