<P> In Italy, the Rabarama Skin Art Festival (held every year during the Summer and Autumn, with a tour in the major Italian cities), is a different event focused on the artistic side of body painting, highlighting the emotional impact of the painted body in a live performance more than the decorative and technical aspects of it . This particular form of creative art is known as "Skin Art". </P> <P> The 1960s supermodel Veruschka is a much appreciated muse for bodypaint artists . Images of her in the book Transfigurations by photographer Holger Trulzsch have frequently been emulated . Other well - known works include Serge Diakonoff's books A Fleur de Peau and Diakonoff and Joanne Gair's Paint a licious . More recently Dutch art photographer Karl Hammer has taken center stage with his combinations of body painting and narrative art (fantastic realism) </P> <P> Following the already established trend in Western - Europe, body painting has become more widely accepted in the United States since the early 1990s . In 2006 the first gallery dedicated exclusively to fine art body painting was opened in New Orleans by World Bodypainting Festival Champion and Judge, Craig Tracy . The Painted Alive Gallery is on Royal Street in the French Quarter . In 2009, a popular late night talk show Last Call with Carson Daly on NBC network, featured a New York - based artist Danny Setiawan who creates reproductions of masterpieces by famous artists such as Salvador Dalí, Vincent van Gogh, and Gustav Klimt on human bodies aiming to make fine art appealing for his contemporaries who normally would not consider themselves as art enthusiasts . </P> <P> Since 2005 the Australian visual artist Emma Hack has been creating photographs of painted naked human bodies that visually merge with a patterned background wall inspired by the wallpaper designs of Florence Broadhurst . Hack is best known for the Gotye music video for the song Somebody That I Used to Know, which uses stop - motion animation body painting and has received over 800 million views on YouTube . Hack now creates her own canvas backgrounds and her work is often featured with live birds, representing nature . Hack's artworks are exhibited worldwide . </P>

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