Artist snorts paint, squirts it from his eyes

Leandro Granato has plenty to cry about, even if his artworks sometimes sell for up to $2,500 — the Argentinian artist snorts up watercolours through his nose and squirts them out of his eyes onto a canvas.

Metro U.K. reported the 27-year-old artist noticed as a child that he could squirt liquids out of his eyes if he snorted them into his nose. As an adult, he began an artistic career using the technique, even though he says his family thought he was losing his mind at first, according to Metro.

His abstract work is a biological phenomenon as much as an artistic creation. He snorts up to a pint and a half of paint for each piece, Metro reported. The process seems unhealthy, but Granato told the Daily Mail he visits doctors regularly and he's developed a paint formula that won't hurt him.

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Other artists have employed strange and disgusting bodily functions toward art, including the vomit painter Millie Brown, who drinks coloured milk then throws it up onto a canvas, or onto her clothing.

Ani K, an art teacher in India, paints using only his tongue, a technique that's given him headaches and nausea but also a great deal of media attention.