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Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at

Painted people

Twenty-four-year-old artist Alexa Meade paints portraits on people. She puts acrylic paint directly on live models, so they appear to be two-dimensional paintings of themselves. These blow my mind!

(Via The Senses Five)
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  2. haha, that third picture is hilarious! So interesting, thanks for sharing!

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  3. WWWWWWOOOOOWWWW!!!

    Incredible!! Can't tell they're live!!

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  4. Oh my goodness! CRAZY!

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  5. Ooh I think I remember seeing these somewhere before.. SO NEAT!!

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  6. How clever and totally awesome is that? I never would have known!

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  7. Would love to see this face-to-face.

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  8. wow. those are extremely good. I got a bit emotional at the man in the first pics. brilliant find! xo

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  9. I've never seen anything like this. So unique and creative! I wonder if the acrylic paint washes off easily?

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  10. Wow that is amazing! She has amazing talent. When I look at them I have trouble remembering they are real! Could you imagine seeing someone in the subway looking like that? What a mind game that would play :) Very cool!

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  11. These are amazingly unbelievable. I would love to see a subject go from start to finish.

    Thanks for sharing!
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  12. What a mind game! How do they get it off though! :/
    And does it crack?!

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  13. That's awesome! I used to teach stage make up classes to little kids and this would have been an awesome lesson (my favorite class to do was stage injuries and then take my students on a field trip to the nurse's office!)

    Becca

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  14. that is wild...would love to see a painitng in person or a painting of a person in person or...you know what I mean!

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  15. That is one of the coolest/craziest things I have ever seen!

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  16. My mind was totally blown with that last photograph. What the heck! I'm still wrapping my mind around it.

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  17. These painting are amazing!

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  18. Seriously? wow! i just sat here for the last five minutes mesmerized!

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  19. Oh my goodness, this is crazy! Blows my mind too!

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  21. That is pretty crazy! I am wondering what the models have to go through to get the paint off? How fun would it be to go to one of her exhibits!? Thanks for sharing :)

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  22. Wow, that's amazing! I really had to look at the photos to figure it out--I'd love to see that in real life!

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  23. I won't repeat what I said out loud as it's not very ladylike.
    Let's just say, no words.

    Thanks for sharing with us.

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  24. Wow, that is just crazy. What a cool idea!! And it looks so very real!
    Viele Gruesse, Kristina

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  25. Wow! That's extraordinary!! I've never seen anything like it. It's so amazing how creative people are getting!!

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  26. this is seriously trippy! and very cool.

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  27. this is mind boggling!! what an idea!

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  28. Holy moly. Too cool.

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  29. My friend introduced these to me and I was completely speechless. She just said, "look at these cool paintings" and then, "look at how detailed the hair is" and waited for me to freak out.

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  30. ashlina, i felt emotional when i saw his photos, too, but i'm not sure why!

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  32. they would make an amazing halloween costume :)

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  34. How cool! I was so busy looking at the painted man in the first couple that I didn't even realize the the people around him weren't painted. I had to go back and look again.

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  35. i was looking at these yesterday!
    it's so hard to comprehend but it's so cool! such a mind trick.

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  36. Seriously this is so cool! What an amazing idea!

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  37. wow, these are seriously soo amazing and real looking!!

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  38. A professor of mine once made this statement about observing artwork. She said "It's not whether you could create the piece, but did you think to do it" What an original idea this is... and so amazing. I definately can not paint like this nor could I have ever had the idea. I love it!!!

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  39. I'm inordinately proud because Alexa is from, ta da, here (DC area). The top image is from the Metro...he's on his way to or from the baseball game. I choke up because it reminds me of my grandfather many years ago. You will notice that the man is alone. It's no fun to go to a game alone (though possibly he's meeting someone at the stadium). But probably not.

    I see this nearly every day that there's a ball game. (Though not painted:) It's the older baseball fans that get me...basketball, hockey, & football here...there are crowds, too. But it's not as nostalgic (which does come from Greek & means 'ache' or 'yearn' from the past.) And now that I have used my classical training for today, I leave...xo

    So great to see these here (& of course on The Senses Five ... and on MMMet).

    Thanks, Joanna.

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  41. Jo how amazing I always love to see new art forms and techniques, very talented!!

    xoxo
    Karena
    Art by Karena

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  42. wow. i love the man in dc. truly amazing!!

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  44. I want to be painted! Where can I sign up!?

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  45. Jeepers! These are incredible and shocking and unlike anything I've ever seen before. Thanks for sharing!

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  46. this is so amazing. i've never seen anything like it!

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  47. That's crazy! I would love to walk past one of those people. :)

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  49. oh.... my.... goodness. these are blow your mind amazing!!! i actually got chills...

    i love what angel court said a few comments back about art not being about whether you CAN do it, but whether or not you thought of it first. great point!

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  50. This is crazy! The dance company I dance with did a slow motion installation for 45 minutes at an art Museum opening a few weeks ago. People went nuts with their iPhones and cameras. I will have to pass this idea along to the company director because we would love to do this. Incredible and thanks for sharing!

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  51. these are absolutely unreal! i was so confused at first but the last image helped me. gosh, this is so amazing

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  53. Allison12:54 PM

    Holy cow! It's like the "Take On Me" video!

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  54. That's incredible! I'd love to see her creative process in person....

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  55. wow! That is amazing and so creative!

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  56. Wow! This is talent! Love it!

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  57. Crazy awesome!!

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  58. this is amazing!

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  59. That's crazy and beautiful...kind of tragic too which makes them all the more interesting. I love how happy the artist looks in the last photo!

    Ciao, Julie

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  61. UnREAL! I can't stop staring at these.

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  62. This. Is. Incredible. I'm completely blown away. Great find and thanks for posting! xo

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  63. I would love to see this in person! What an incredible artist!!

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  64. Wild.... instillation at it's best....xv

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  65. This is crazzzzzzy! So cool! Live art never ceases to amaze me.

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  66. out here in california, we have pageant of the masters, a live production of the same thing--people painted to look like sculptures and paintings. it goes for about a month every summer at a fabulous outdoor theater in laguna beach, and it is amazing! last year's theme was eat, drink, and be merry :)

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  67. Oh my goodness! I saw her in Baltimore- she was creating one of her masterpieces right in front of me and my boyfriend. It was absolutely incredible. If you can, you should try to see her work in real-life.

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  68. That is amazing! I love how not real it looks!
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  69. Thank you for posting this! Truly amazing and inspirational. I'm in art school, and will definitely be showing this to several classmates. Great find!!

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  70. It's so seldom you actually see something NEW! This is such a brilliant idea, I like the reversed relation between flat and three dimensional, the live and the represented.

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  72. that is insane!!!

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  73. I think this looks completely wild! I can't imagine sitting there with all that paint on my body, totally crazy!

    Amy R.

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  74. Wow wow wow. The man on the subway is incredible. What an incredible idea & implementation!!

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  75. Really interesting and thought provoking. Thanks for the link.

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  76. So neat! I would love to see this in person!

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  77. These paintings are amazing!

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  78. I love this girl and she is just 24-25 years old. Increadible talent

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  79. THESE ARE AMAZZZING!!! so much talent out there, I love it!

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  80. wow! never seen anything like that before!

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  81. WHOA~ speechless!

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  82. no freakin way! this is SOO cool!

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  83. really awesome and amazing.

    reminds me a little of the pageant of the masters that is performed in laguna beach every summer.

    http://www.foapom.com/gallery/

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  84. that is so amazing...i would love to see them in 'real' life :)

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  85. this is INCREDIBLE. i thought that it was photoshopped but i guess not. how creative this is.

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  86. wow - just wow! so facinating!

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  89. Anonymous5:20 AM

    Alexa Meade is really something, your blog is now part of my daily routine, thanks!
    vale

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  90. How bizarre!! Pretty talented.

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  91. this is crazy. And so beautiful! And I'm amazed that someone so young would think of something like this. :) I'm a fan already.

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  92. Wow this is incredible! It looks so real (as a painting) what an inventive way to make art like this.

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  93. That is incredible! What a great experience that must be to see these in person in a gallery setting.

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  95. wow! totally mind blowing!

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  96. Wow - I have never seen anything like that - just awesome!

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  97. This is blowing my mind!

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  99. holy moly I have never sen anything like this, these paintings are so magnificent!

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  100. this is just amazing.. i really want to see the actual work,, it's just so hard to believe!

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  101. This is amazing! What a concept!

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  102. WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!!!......All I can say is WOW!

    I've been painting portraits most of my life but this totally blows me away. Thanks for sharing!

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  103. WOW! That is amazing and can we say very, very, very talented.

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  104. No way...this is too cool. I'd love to see this in person!

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  105. Ahhh!! How would you even figure out how to DO that?!?! It's like that sidewalk chalk artist who draws those crazy things that only look 3-D from a certain viewpoint. These people's brains must be amazing.

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  107. this is unreal!!


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  108. My mind is blown now too.

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  109. wow. this is strange new and fasinating

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  110. woooow,creative idea!!!

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  111. these are beautiful!!

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  112. Wow! I am blown away. I'm so glad there are such amazingly creative people out there. Thanks for sharing!

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