Nelly Recchia: Painter of Bodies (Some NSFW)

For Nelly Recchia, the body is her canvas. Whether it’s to your taste or not, this French artist definitely took body painting beyond the simple concept of “painter of bodies”. The body paintings of Nelly Recchia are sometimes intense and diverse, many have somewhat dense complexities, they play with feelings, fetishes and even with surrealism. Her concepts and themes have diversity too, be it by working with her model and generating ideas from the form, shape and/or its intrinsic capabilities of expression.
Apparently, Nelly Recchia does not use photoshop nor any form of digital image manipulation for that matter. Everything you see, all the effects and deformations are the result of body paint alone. The creation of her body paintings, Like the Bushido painting (pictured above-top), can take up to 13 hours. It’s not hard to believe that someone putting so much effort in the search for perfection is an admirer of my all time favorite master painter Caravaggio. And it’s not only the body paint that’s of an intense beauty, the photography displaying her art is adding even more layers.

The talents of Nelly Recchia have not remained unnoticed, shes won several awards in Make Up and Body Art competitions. And she worked for music videos and promos for giants like Britney Spears, Madonna and Marilyn Manson among many others. LINK