Johannes Stotter’s Amazing Art: A Treat for You!

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1. Bob Shepherd says:

   April 21, 2019 at 12:21 pm

   Body painting is one of the world’s oldest art forms. Among the greatest practitioners of this art are friends of mine, Scott Fray and Madelyn Greco, who are the five-time world champion body painters. (Yes, there are international competitions in this art form.) Their amazing work can be found here: http://www.livingbrush.com/

   Warning, that site is NSFW. Body painting involves work on unclothed bodies.

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   • Laura H. Chapman says:

     April 21, 2019 at 1:44 pm

     This is amazing work for a self-taught artist.

     Little known factoid.
     The formal principles for visual camouflage were developed in the late 1890s by a painter, Herbert Thayer, who grew up in New Hampshire in the 1850s. As a kid, he was “crazy about birds.” He studied painting at New York and Paris, later on returned to New Hampshire and concentrated on wild life painting. In doing so, he discovered the basic principles of camouflage, and with Gerome Bush, received a patent for countershading–a distruptive coloration, usually planned with a pattern to match a background.
     That’s a long arc from being a kid …“crazy about birds”–to a painter of wildlife–to inventing a now taken-for-granted feature of atful illusions, even in warfare.

     The dance community has been drawn to these illusionist possibilities in costumes, choreography, and lighting. I am also reminded of the appeal of transformer toys (and variants in film and video games) in addition to the classic Gestalt “figure/ground” demonstrations–Is that an old hag or a beautiful woman? Is that a duck or a rabbit?

     Thayer is discussed here. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-painter-of-angels-became-the-father-of-camouflage-67218866/

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     • dianeravitch says:

       April 21, 2019 at 1:56 pm

       Thank you, Laura.

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     • GregB says:

       April 21, 2019 at 3:33 pm

       Also very cool.

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     • Bob Shepherd says:

       April 21, 2019 at 6:51 pm

       I have been after Scott and Madelyn for a long time to write an illustrated history of bodypainting. They could use on such a project a person of your discernment and research skills and knowledge of art history, Laura! Always a great pleasure to read these posts from you!

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2. Lenny Rothbart says:

   April 21, 2019 at 12:35 pm

   Amazing! Thank you for posting this!

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3. GregB says:

   April 21, 2019 at 1:00 pm

   Very cool!

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4. IRA SHOR says:

   April 22, 2019 at 10:10 am

   Astonishing.

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5. Susan Lee Schwartz says:

   April 22, 2019 at 9:46 pm

   It is incredible, but the real lesson comes itht he next video, whichsrow has an artist pursues his own vision, and the hard work that goes into it.

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