Meet the Human Canvas!!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chadwick Gray has to<b> remain motionless for up to 15 hours at a time</b> so that artist Laura Spector can paint him.Yet this is no ordinary still life,for t<b>he canvas is not a sheet of paper but Chadwick's body</b>!</span><br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgun7yf7irifaXzjWjwYbI_IN5AMWaU0Q0k9E0dO6ofN1kUBYIzg2egKPke5XcNRqTm1R3af-egWnwATGr7YI1GgDlzeafbrpXouApZcOblSB9u4316f7zUvj9RLFZW9ZrAWO2qGaeZeCc/s1600/chadwick-spector-headshot-color-small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgun7yf7irifaXzjWjwYbI_IN5AMWaU0Q0k9E0dO6ofN1kUBYIzg2egKPke5XcNRqTm1R3af-egWnwATGr7YI1GgDlzeafbrpXouApZcOblSB9u4316f7zUvj9RLFZW9ZrAWO2qGaeZeCc/s1600/chadwick-spector-headshot-color-small.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is all part of the New York City collaborative team's <b>Museum Anatomy Project</b>,which began in 1996 and sees them re-create old paintings onto a human canvas.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chadwick admits he suffers for his art and enters almost a meditative "trance" in order to stay completely still for so long.Sometimes his feats of meditative endurance are made publicly.In 2001,for example,<b>Laura painted a 19th century portrait of a bride onto his body in the front windows of the Henri Bendel department store in NYC!</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgF6E3nbYfR8efNO9S_DuYYTaw0F3RS45vIKVLi1cOJCWGPu9khubIPsMumhA3PA_XCqLle5w6ltaMAYAOys1oHrg9mL93PurvVHUVvtP6MzXY3IjTUe-w0WmDc2QrGZpFonqitVKSquw/s1600/o1-1-179.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="467" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgF6E3nbYfR8efNO9S_DuYYTaw0F3RS45vIKVLi1cOJCWGPu9khubIPsMumhA3PA_XCqLle5w6ltaMAYAOys1oHrg9mL93PurvVHUVvtP6MzXY3IjTUe-w0WmDc2QrGZpFonqitVKSquw/s1600/o1-1-179.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Laura Spector painting onto Chadwick's body</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chadwick and Laura scour the storerooms of museums across the world for likely subjects,frequently looking for paintings that have been stored and hidden away from public view because of their controversial nature.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chadwick says,</span><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We often had to convince conservative curators,and once,in Prague,even a panel of nuns,to allow us to reproduce rare paintings of the female form onto the often naked male body!"</span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjldQfyDMzDeHDTN3LFxsDoEtm4LZbBEv_9bur-ogEqEFcQo8bZm8s95hRRv3RuMzxTy1PnbD5CqTEtDMS1PVidEvNLW5-NVyJ6p9l6uIButa5vsMHDgJVn0-rQWVp4Y3TEAUYDgIxco6A/s1600/o5-178.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjldQfyDMzDeHDTN3LFxsDoEtm4LZbBEv_9bur-ogEqEFcQo8bZm8s95hRRv3RuMzxTy1PnbD5CqTEtDMS1PVidEvNLW5-NVyJ6p9l6uIButa5vsMHDgJVn0-rQWVp4Y3TEAUYDgIxco6A/s1600/o5-178.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Laura Spector painting the "Lanna Woman" on Chadwick</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the body art is completed,Laura photographs Chadwick and the prints are developed to the same size as the original painting.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The resulting photographs reveal a new work of art in which the painting acquires curves and sometimes leaves the canvas unrecognizable as Chadwick's human form</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">!</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGGXGlWfA0YRmIlFwuT_HfL9cqfI_6d3NOpgAsCWTj9z3lpb8vk-KbyQNiGDjcrOohycUgoZyp3VP3_hC5xxmgFKf9hsloDWvXUNBMVmHqbNVKThYf96d_S4ywfJWOX-DS5QIe7-Ol8hY/s1600/Museum-Anatomy-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGGXGlWfA0YRmIlFwuT_HfL9cqfI_6d3NOpgAsCWTj9z3lpb8vk-KbyQNiGDjcrOohycUgoZyp3VP3_hC5xxmgFKf9hsloDWvXUNBMVmHqbNVKThYf96d_S4ywfJWOX-DS5QIe7-Ol8hY/s1600/Museum-Anatomy-3.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">The </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Lanna Woman </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">after work </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">(observe carefully,his body is out there)</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some more:</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2j1pbUXzDGj_f7N34LntmAeZfcXwAaiQ9rbr4LLMVY-psolWx6JstMKzn-NEPq2e2dPcngsngsKqXpsANxCzVUZF2-csh8CcZbZ-CE1snkIJRb72qRrENG1kFO0PYfuzircVqJpvD4vk/s1600/article-2249962-169080CF000005DC-607_306x423.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2j1pbUXzDGj_f7N34LntmAeZfcXwAaiQ9rbr4LLMVY-psolWx6JstMKzn-NEPq2e2dPcngsngsKqXpsANxCzVUZF2-csh8CcZbZ-CE1snkIJRb72qRrENG1kFO0PYfuzircVqJpvD4vk/s1600/article-2249962-169080CF000005DC-607_306x423.jpg" /></a></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SPOT HIM NOW !!!!</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9HQuzMrsiYGHeJqNuUp-MseAUzFBta78Wt5kg-jryUs819bb52MW6ohSpUNCKZhNl2DgCwMcjiD9iYilH3MhKWnvaH-0QRIbeEPlikKCh6yzDclyQiNq2XyI0JuoQf5kUlx3l698b7kY/s1600/111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9HQuzMrsiYGHeJqNuUp-MseAUzFBta78Wt5kg-jryUs819bb52MW6ohSpUNCKZhNl2DgCwMcjiD9iYilH3MhKWnvaH-0QRIbeEPlikKCh6yzDclyQiNq2XyI0JuoQf5kUlx3l698b7kY/s1600/111.jpg" width="376" /></a></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a lot more of paintings done on Chadwick!! 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Meet the Human Canvas!!

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