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Art created by using people?

Asked by tysona1 (10points) January 1st, 2010

What is it called when people are used to create art, such as the flowers, trees, etc, in the Prius commercial?

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Violet's avatar

well, kids do that in plays all the time. It’s just a person in a costume. Like in a play, or at the theatre.

stranger_in_a_strange_land's avatar

I believe that the term is Performance Artist.

MacBean's avatar

Well, “body art” is more often used to refer to art on bodies, but it can also mean art with bodies. It’s a subcategory of performance art.

Arisztid's avatar

I have seen some of this and it is usually strange but often quite attractive in its way.

I do not think you mean things like body art, where it is painting on bodies, rather the artistic arrangement of living people or performance art.

I do not have a term for it, which I just saw you asked. I have only heard of “performance art.”

jaytkay's avatar

Take a look at the work of Mole & Thomas

PandoraBoxx's avatar

Are you referring to this? I would think of this as choreography. It’s kind of like The Wave, but in costume. It reminds me of a Busby Berkeley production number.

aprilsimnel's avatar

You mean like Spencer Tunick? Performance art, I guess.

tysona1's avatar

Yes, like the commercial at the link you provided, april. Not so much painting on a body; the work shown on Mole & Thomas is closer to what I am looking for, in that people are making up the individual components/pixels of a picture, but I am actually more interested in the live action version of this. Meaning not picture, per se, but moving and animated designs, such as in the Spencer Tunick link, or like the kids in this music video Mad World video.

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