It looks like a painting, right? It's not. Makeup Girl is actually a photograph of a model in bodypaint. Peter Kun Frary,
Recently I walked by the Ala Moana Mac cosmetic store and noticed a crowd of Japanese tourists gawking and snapping pics. Amazingly, a model in full body paint was posing against a set. She was a darn good simulation of a late 19th century oil painting. At first I though she was nekid--wearing only makeup--but she sported a few scrapes of cloth in the right places. Also, she hardly ever blinked...
http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/Frary/pic290.htm via Urlesque
UPDATE: The photographer has kindly visited us in the comments.
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i mean, if anything it looks more like a 3d render than a painting to me.
And since when is Fauvism from the "late XIXth century" ?
All these painters fought against retinian art, paintings that looked like reality, and now some trickster makes a photograph of a girl made to look like something that doesn't look like reality ?
Nonsense.
That is cool.
This is not a window display. It's live a model on a set on a small stage outside. The natural sunlight light is diffused through white cloth to reduce shadows and contrast.
Incidentally, I'm not an art professor. I'm a MUSIC professor and classical guitarist.
Aloha Nui Loa,
Peter Kun Frary
People don't need to give you a heads-up to link to your stuff. Unfortunately, that's just how the internet works. As long as they link back to where they found the image, there is no harm and no foul.
And I would feel a lot more sympathy for you if you had simply shot an email with your corrections instead of publicly berating the poster for a couple of simple mistakes.
Holy Lord are you sensitive!
Actually, Prof Frary has every right to complain about the use of his photograph without permission. It is theft and a breach of international copyright law which DOES apply to the internet.
In view of this, he was actually being very polite in his post and his tone is hardly berating the original poster who SHOULD have asked for permission to use his photo!