Festival Gives Body Painters A Brush With Fame

By: Mary-Jayne McKay
Topics: News

A model poses for photographers during the annual World Body Painting Festival in Seeboden, at Lake Millstaettersee, in Austria's southern Carinthia province on Sunday,July 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

(CBS) This year's World Body Painting Festival in Austria drew 200 artists from more than 40 different countries and almost 30,00 fans, according to Sky News.

Pictures: World Body Painting Festival

The week-long event in Seeboden, in Austria's Cartinthia region , kicked off on Monday, July 12, and included a "Body Circus" fantasy ball in a medieval castle that featured several hundred people In costume.

Awards were given out, in a varierty of categories, including dance, drama, painting and photography, Sky News reports.

The festival is in its 13th year.

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by nevgreco July 21, 2010 11:28 AM EDT: I love art..so what ever it will be is OK with me...We cannot go wrong with looking at art form or painting..no matter what age we are..I am a nudist and some of us out there could of used a few bruses with the paint...No car wrecks, no shooting..and people with body paint can sit down and have a cup of coffee and read a paper..does it sound to boreing for some people..Let us enjoy art and let us participate in it..Nevfrom Las Vegas, were all the women look good to me,,being that I am a senior..Go to a museum,,take the kids there..go naked, in private with your family..who cares..If people see you naked, it will make you think of being healthy..go for it..; Reply to this comment