Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), full body tattoo and body painting.

More extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits. For example, one of Marina Abramovic's works involved dancing until she collapsed from exhaustion, while one of Dennis Oppenheim's better-known works saw him lying in the sunlight with a book on his chest, until his skin, excluding that covered by the book, was badly sunburned. It can even consist of the arrangement and dissection of preserved bodies in an artistic fashion, as in the case of the plastinated bodies used in the travelling Body Worlds exhibit.

In Western art, body art appears to be a sub-category of performance art, in which artists use or abuse their own body to make their particular statements.

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While Im not a #tattoo person myself, I do enjoy #bodyart for inspiration, and this artist is truly amazing. http://www.meganhoogland.com/
deafdogdesign (Jonnelle Harbold) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:42:54 -0000
While Im not a #tattoo person myself, I do enjoy #bodyart for inspiration, and this artist is truly amazing. http://www.meganhoogland.com/
Geral se ''pintando'' ali na sala... #tatoo #bodyart
pedrocamposs (Pedro Campos) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:38:51 -0000
Geral se ''pintando'' ali na sala... #tatoo #bodyart
@nieshanicole http://bodyart.australianmuseum.net.au/images/piercing/pierc_03.jpg <------ BOOM
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