He proved so adept at transferring the human figure to the canvas that he soon received permission to study bodies at a local morgue. ... Da Vinci also attempted to figure out how things worked.

Their bodies are Gair's canvas. "I'm an illusionist," she says of her body painting, revered in the world of makeup artists. On Moore, she painted a man's suit for the cover of Vanity Fair in 1992.

Artists have depicted the human form since the days of the early cave painters. They’ve gotten a lot more sophisticated in the millennia that followed. “Embodied” offers proof at The Ringling.

Although it was after his departure that the Taliban took power in Af, Fazl feels their impact keenly. “[T]hey completely abandoned art or anything that involved the human figure, because those ...

Usually George Skinner Carr paints from a photograph, but his photographs are not always taken with a still camera. He uses video to capture movement and find the perfect moment.

THERE is no blank canvas like the human body and in this artistic genre endless possibilities will be showcased at this weekend's Australian Body Art Carnivale.

John Singleton Copley’s ‘Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin’ captures the exterior and interior of a tender human situation while conveying a plain-spoken American sensibility.

In Keyana Tahmaseb’s surrealist photo series “Human Canvas,” people appear to fade into their surroundings.