Artist Liu, also known as the ‘Vanishing Artist’, is painted by an assistant as he makes himself look exactly the same as the wall of an old temple in a Hutong in central Beijing

Artist Liu Bolin, also known as the ‘Vanishing Artist’, is painted by an assistant as he makes himself look exactly the same as the wall of an old temple in a Hutong in central Beijing August 26, 2009. Liu started his optical illusion artworks of becoming ‘invisible’ more than four years ago, describing them as a form of political protest and his way of ‘hiding from the authorities’. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) – RTR2745O