PMG posed 288 times for Adonis - Video

Paul Michael Graves hit each pose three times, twelve poses, one nude, one with briefs, one nude with white paint, and one wearing briefs in white paint for 288 times for the project Adonis.

Watch the artist with a body built like Adonis, transform himself into a marble statue for the sake of art. Combining his love of photography, bodybuilding, acting, and painting, he built his body like the mythical Adonis, covered himself head to toe with white paint, and performed a dozen classic bodybuilding poses in front of his own cameras, the Canon 5D Mark IV and the Canon EF "Black Beauty" 35mm film camera. Inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and referencing his Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding, Graves overcame years of chronic back pain to sculpt his body like Adonis, considered the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity. He sat down with friend and fellow painter Ian Mack to describe how he combined Michelangelo and Arnold Schwarzenegger to create beautiful images of the art of posing.