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body artist

  • a word derived from body art.
    body art
    noun
    an artistic practice or style of the 1960s and 1970s developing from conceptual art and performance art and utilizing the artist's body as both the subject and object in such experimentation as decoration, wax casts, and even mutilation.

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Renowned body artist Henk Schiffmacher and his team are offering tattoos of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn's most iconic works in a pop-up studio installed at the painter's former house and now museum in Amsterdam.

From Reuters Jun. 24, 2023

Unable to discern even his name, the body artist calls him “Mr. Tuttle,” after a bumbling teacher from her childhood.

From New York Times Feb. 4, 2019

Being a woman and a girl and a body artist, Sherman has her mind on the inevitable issue of hemlines—not to mention silent prayers and abrupt supplications, and skin and bone and structure.

From Slate Feb. 27, 2012

At a far remove from Diebenkorn's Matissean equilibrium, the Austrian pavilion was filled with the work of Arnulf Rainer, the leading European body artist.

From Time Magazine Archive

The monochromes of Yves Klein, a curiously underrated compound of Duchampian dandy and body artist from the '50s, prefigure much that would happen on the conceptual fringes of the art scene in the '70s.

From Time Magazine Archive

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