Painted bodies transformed into art in Venezuela
JORGE RUEDAJORGE RUEDA, Associated Press?
?A woman covered in body paint poses at the Teresa Carreno's theater during the VI World Meeting of Body Art in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday , Nov. 19, 2011. Activities such as body painting, tattooing, performances, workshops and conferences are part of the event. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A woman covered in body paint poses at the Teresa Carreno's theater during the VI World Meeting of Body Art in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday , Nov. 19, 2011. Activities such as body painting, tattooing, performances, workshops and conferences are part of the event. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A woman covered in body paint poses for pictures at the Teresa Carreno's theater during the sixth World Meeting of Body Art in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Activities such as body painting, tattooing, performances, workshops and conferences are part of the event. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Artist Ana Echachy, from, Venezuela, right, blows glitter over a man face as the final touch of a body paint work during the VI World Meeting of Body Art at the Teresa Carreno's theater in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Activities such as body painting, tattooing, performances, workshops and conferences are part of the event. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Women look at a man performing as a statue during the VI World Meeting of Body Art at the Teresa Carreno's theater in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday , Nov. 19, 2011. Activities such as body painting, tattooing, performances, workshops and conferences are part of the event. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A woman covered in body paint poses at the Teresa Carreno's theater during the VI World Meeting of Body Art in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Activities such as body painting, tattooing, performances, workshops and conferences are part of the event. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? Artists used paint, ornaments and glitter to transform the human body into artwork at a festival in Venezuela, showing off designs that ranged from pure fantasy to indigenous myths.
The weekend's annual World Meeting of Body Art included body painting, tattoo art, performances and workshops. Fifty-two artists from 18 countries shared their creations at the gathering in Caracas, joining about 2,000 Venezuelans, organizers said.
Participants had their bodies painted in bright hues from orange to lime green. Vines appeared to wind down the shoulders of one woman, and a man posed as a statue with his skin painted to look like marble.
"The body is a canvas with infinite possibilities," Venezuelan artist Ivan Hernandez Rojas said. "I think it's fascinating that colors, clothing, makeup, masks, wigs, combs ... and accessories allow the human being to change from one identity to another."
The festival, which began Thursday and ended Sunday, included participants from various Latin American countries as well as others who traveled from the Japan, Luxembourg, Poland, South Africa, Australia, the United States and Austria, among other nations.
One presentation by Venezuelan David Aranguren and 11 other artists focused on the mythology of the country's Warao indigenous group, who live in the Orinoco River Delta. Actors' bodies were painted and adorned with leaves and feathers, and they played parts such as the wind and the "crocodile god."
Associated Press
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