Fine art body painting

Fine art body painting

The 1960s supermodel Veruschka is often cited as being many body painters' muse.^{[citation needed]} Her images in the book Transfigurations with photographer Holger Trulzsch have frequently been emulated.^{[citation needed]} Other well-known works include Serge Diakonoff's books A Fleur de Peau and Diakonoff and Joanne Gair's Paint a licious.
Since the early 1990s bodypainting has become more widely accepted in the United States, and more and more body artists are beginning to come onto the national community.

Georgetown University fans with painted torsos in Atlanta; such painting is common in many sports

Starting in late 2006 Sacramento art galleries started to use fine art bodypainting as performance art to draw new patrons.^{[citation needed]}
In 2006 the first gallery dedicated exclusively to fine art bodypainting 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 Dali, 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.