Artists have depicted the human form since the days of the early cave painters. They’ve gotten a lot more sophisticated in the millennia that followed. “Embodied” offers proof at The Ringling. Curated ...

Philip Pearlstein painting in his studio in 1993 (all photos courtesy Betty Cuningham Gallery) In a cramped loft in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, Philip Pearlstein painted every day for 30 years, ...

Painting with chalk -- Chalk & ocher -- Colors of the earth -- Ocher bodies -- Red ocher -- Ocher & oil -- Powdered with ash -- Patterns of beauty -- Spirit paint -- Painting for seduction "The ...

Artist Johannes Stoetter has perfected the art of body-painting illusions. He has won acclaim for his series of animal illusions, in which models painted head to toe contort into the shapes of frogs, ...