Painting the Nude

Studio 360 | Mar 1, 2011

Every couple of years a group in Washington DC takes over a giant space, like an abandoned warehouse, and fills it full of art by more than 700 artists. The project is called Art-o-Matic. And as we discovered, a great number of the paintings at Art-o-Matic are pictures of people not wearing clothes. Produced by Richard Paul.

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