![]() ![]() So he decided to test the boundaries of the law in 2011 with his own art spectacle-and got arrested. Being nude in public is actually legal if it’s for artistic purposes,” Golub says. "NYC Body Painting Day" initially grew out of Golub highlighting a little-known law that permits public nudity in the city. I think that, ultimately, accepting your own body is very much connected to accepting yourself.” ![]() Because it deals with people being comfortable enough with their own bodies to share it in some of the most public spaces in the world. But on the other hand, there is something very deep about it. (Typical reactions of passersby seem to include open jaws paired with wide eyes and picture-taking.) “Body painting seems to be very light and silly,” he says. Then, they’ll hop on a double-decker bus and head off to enjoy some live music and entertainment at Brooklyn venue The Space.įor Golub, the day is aimed at more than the inherent shock-value built into public nudity. After getting painted from noon to 4pm, participants will march from Union Square to Washington Square Park. getting naked, will need to complete an application and get approved beforehand. Anyone interested in joining the main action, i.e. In past years, participants have transformed their bodies into famous paintings, like Van Gogh’s popular Starry Night, and created abstractionist, Cirque Du Soleil -esque designs. This years’ theme is “resilience, ” which, as Golub tells Time Out, was inspired by difficulties of “the past year” and him wondering “what is New York if not people getting together?” He says the event as fitting into the larger recovery of the city and more jubilant mood filling the city, saying, “Now seems to be the time we can go back to the normal of being crazy.” Over 30 artists and 50 nude models are set to take part in the inclusive, body-positive event. The bold celebration of the body as art will take place again this month, with the festivities kicking off in Union Square Park. The observations include Golub and other body painting enthusiasts convening in the city, stripping off their clothes and using the nude body as a canvas. Come and discover the incredible diversity of contemporary nude painting on SINGULART.Artist Andy Golub has celebrated July 25 as “Body Painting Day” in New York City over the past few years. Painter Michael Alford takes an approach similar to that of classical painting, creating nude oil paintings of female nudes, languidly laying on beds or couches. At SINGULART, we represent a great variety of artists who, in their own way, revisit this historical genre: the German painter Bernard Simunovic realizes stylized and graphic paintings of contemporary nudes, inspired by the portraits of Picasso or Matisse. Many contemporary artists are still inspired by the theme of the nude in painting. The painter, Manet and the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century would break these traditional conventions by creating nude paintings of the people around them or courtesans, to make nude painting an accepted genre to be exhibited in the largest museums around the world. Nevertheless, until the nineteenth century, nudity in art was only acceptable if it served to represent a mythological or divine subject artists were not able to paint the naked body of an ordinary person, for fear of being judged as indecent and scandalous. The nude painting became a genre in itself in the 18th century, which gave it a greater integrity: nude painting ceases to be a practical exercise for artists, to study the subject of their paintings. Throughout the Middle Ages the nude painting was rejected, because of associations to the sins of the flesh, whereas the nude painting took centre stage during the Renaissance in the fifteenth century. The representation of the nude in works of art was, at the time, a very common practice, artists would idealize the body of their models to create a vision of perfect beauty. It was in ancient Greece that the representation of the nude in art was glorified: the bodily perfection of the gods and the divine could be seen in the statues and the frescoes. Nude painting is an age old artistic tradition from prehistoric times to the present day. ![]()
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