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  2. Joanne Gair - Wikipedia

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    Joanne Gair Born c. 1958 (age 66–67) Auckland, New Zealand Known for Body painting, Make-up artist Notable work Demi's Birthday Suit (August 1992) Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues (1999–) Disappearing Model (2000) Movement Trompe-l'œil Website www.joannegair.com Joanne Gair (born c. 1958), nicknamed Kiwi Jo (alternatively Kiwi Joe), is a New Zealand -born and -raised make-up artist and ...

  3. Cholera - Wikipedia

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    Cholera is a major plot device in The Painted Veil, a 1925 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The story concerns a shy bacteriologist who discovers his young, pretty wife is having an adulterous affair. The story concerns a shy bacteriologist who discovers his young, pretty wife is having an adulterous affair.

  4. Portrayal of female bodies in Chinese contemporary art

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    Many contemporary Chinese women artists have employed the use of female bodies as the subject of their artworks. From the ancient and imperial period of China until early the 19th century, women's body images in Chinese art were predominantly portrayed through male artists' lenses. As a result, female bodies were often misrepresented.

  5. Body painting - Wikipedia

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    Body painting is a form of body art where artwork is painted directly onto the human skin. Unlike tattoos and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, lasting several hours or sometimes up to a few weeks (in the case of mehndi or "henna tattoos" about two weeks).

  6. Visible Human Project - Wikipedia

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    In 2000, the photos were rescanned at a higher resolution, yielding more than 65 gigabytes. The female cadaver was cut into slices at 0.33-millimeter intervals, resulting in some 40 gigabytes of data. The term "cut" is a bit of a misnomer, yet it is used to describe the process of grinding away the top surface of a specimen at regular intervals ...

  7. Body art - Wikipedia

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    Body art is art in which the artist uses their human body as the primary medium. [1] Emerging from the context of Conceptual Art during the 1970s, [1] Body art may include performance art. Body art is likewise utilized for investigations of the body in an assortment of different media including painting, casting, photography, film and video. [2]

  8. Depictions of nudity - Wikipedia

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    Nudity in art—painting, sculpture, and more recently photography—has generally reflected social standards of the time in aesthetics and modesty/morality. At all times in human history, the human body has been one of the principal subjects for artists. It has been represented in paintings and statues since prehistory.

  9. Category:Nude art - Wikipedia

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    Female Figure (Giambologna) Female Half-Length Nude with Hat; Female Nude (Renoir, 1876) Femme nue couchée; The Fiancée of Belus; Figure drawing; Figure painting; Figure study; The Fisherman and the Syren; Five Bathing Women at a Lake; Flora and Zephyr; Flora Caressed by Zephyr; La Fornarina; The Four Continents; Four Seasons (Reni) The Four ...