Toward the end of "Lemonade," Beyoncé sings with her skin painted white.
In her futuristic, MTV-like video, the Korean performance artist Ium runs around abandoned loft spaces in a sexy Barbarella-style outfit, her skin painted silver.
For their Giverny project in 2010 Ms. Day photographed Ms. Pfahler in costume, her skin painted hot pink, posing against lushly verdant backdrops in the garden.
In "The Fairy's Kiss," Ms. Mearns will appear on-screen above the orchestra as a demonic ice maiden — skin painted silvery white with sharp icicles for fingers.
It was hard to figure out what, exactly, was going on in the general back-and-forthing by an apparent god, a snorting apparent monster, five fire-people and an irritating non-stilt-walking sprite, her skin painted red.
As a way of demonstrating that silver, too, will bring cash at Oliver Jewellery, he had his skin painted silver for one — presumably having resisted the temptation to appear as the Lone Arranger's horse.
But that's where I found myself on Saturday, wearing nothing but my own skin, painted blue, alongside 3,200 other like-minded people, shivering slightly in the dawn breeze.
My son, Dan, will be at the game Saturday night, skin painted green as usual in big games; my daughter, Caela, and her husband, Greg, have risked the wrath of the gods by making hotel reservations for Miami.
And we'll never, ever, forget Vogue Italia's "Abracadabra" editorial shot by Steven Meisel, which shows model Saskia de Brauw in a series of images with her skin painted dark or with African tribal marks.
