The Origin of Body Art Painting

Some data can show that the earliest body painting is primitive people in the body with whale ink painted totem, as a body protection sign. Subsequently, the popularity of the "tattoo", the pattern in addition to totem graphics, most of the fish, crosses, triangles and jagged patterns, basically geometric. 1891, the United States invented an electric tattoo machine, but also formulated a unified pattern, popular for a while. British high society and Japan have also popularized this special "make-up". Body painting also includes the face, the Chinese opera character face painting, is the peak of the world face painting art.

The art of tattooing is regarded by the people of China as a flood of vulgar culture, and the beginning of the new century, a more exaggerated body painting but quietly landed in the country's major cities. Anshan City, the famous body painting teacher Ms. Huang Chunfeng told reporters, from the beginning of the shallow to later a hair and can not be collected, this abandoned the traditional plane for the medium of art forms of expression has been more and more people positioned as a branch of artistic creation. Compared to traditional three-dimensional art forms such as sculpture, this equally beautiful art acts directly on the human body and expresses itself in the human body, with greater randomness and creativity.

On the origin of body painting, Ms. Huang said, in the pursuit of beauty, artists gradually tired of the paper or cloth on a single expression of thinking, so some people found that in fact the human body is the best carrier of beauty, that full of life luster of the texture is any traditional media and painting can never be shown. And a little bit of history people also found this way of painting with the body in fact as early as in the primitive society has appeared, "ancient Indians invented tattooing, after the ancient African Middle East people in the plant extracted with a variety of colors of pigments, they will be painted on the body, to play a hidden, Chongtian or highlight the totem, but the modern man is entirely for the expression of beauty anymore." Body painting has replaced tattoos as a fashionable new favorite, and stunned more and more public occasions, today's body painting meaning has been different from the primitive times, it can be used to highlight some of their own superior characteristics, and of course, can also cover up some of the shortcomings of the skin, so many girls are trying to accept it as a return to the beauty of nature.

Body painting is a flexible and vivid way of displaying art, abandoning the empty plane, it gives the artist full imagination, and because of the three-dimensional medium, more so that the drawn works of layered, three-dimensional sense of strong. Body painting varies from person to person, not repeatability is very consistent with the requirements of the sudden art behavior, it is presented on the body of the pattern expresses the colorist inner artistic cultivation and fashion taste, so a good body painter in addition to have a solid painting skills, his cultural connotation must be very prominent.

"Nowadays, body painting does originate from abroad, but we also have our own body painting in China, that is, the art of face painting in Peking Opera. In fact, these two arts are not so far away from each other, they are only with their own cultural background in the specific performance. Now the popular body painting because it is wider subject matter, suitable for decoration, so it is accepted and popular, but it is essentially no difference with our face, the reason why it is not popular may be that the people are more conservative do not know how to change it". As a national art of Beijing opera, a very important point of view is the face, this thick oil paint on the face actually formed a unique national culture. But in today's ever-changing world, we should also do more derivative adjustments to it, not to change the essence of the basis of the popular point of view, after all, change is long well!

The popular art of body painting now uses a special oil for painting, which generally does not have the potential to harm the skin, so that more people can try and accept it. It's also very easy to clean up, as long as you wipe it off with a normal makeup remover and then wash it off with water. But Ms. Huang also reminded the people who are eager to get out of the new people, painting should also pay attention to the matching of clothing, so as to play a complementary three-dimensional effect. Perhaps, a warm afternoon when you lazily walk in the street, you will be surprised to find a fashionable girl with a cool painted pattern floating in the city.