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Body Art Report

Body art encompasses a wide range of disciplines that use the human body as a canvas, including body painting, tattoos, piercings, and photography. It dates back to prehistoric times with practices like face painting and has evolved to include modern forms like nail art. Graffiti art, a radical contemporary movement, emerged in the late 1960s in cities like New York and uses spray paint and markers to decorate urban environments. It has grown to influence hip hop culture and includes personal, gang-related, and political street art styles.

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Body Art Report

Body art encompasses a wide range of disciplines that use the human body as a canvas, including body painting, tattoos, piercings, and photography. It dates back to prehistoric times with practices like face painting and has evolved to include modern forms like nail art. Graffiti art, a radical contemporary movement, emerged in the late 1960s in cities like New York and uses spray paint and markers to decorate urban environments. It has grown to influence hip hop culture and includes personal, gang-related, and political street art styles.

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BODY ART

• The term “Body Art” describes a type of


contemporary art, in which the artist’s own body
becomes the “Canvas” or “Artwork”. Although
closely related to conceptual art and
performance art, body art embraces a wide
range of disciplines, including; Body painting,
tattoo art, face painting, nail art, piercings, make
up, mime and living statues and photography.
HISTORY AND ORIGIN
• Dates back to the era of prehistoric art and the use
of color pigments, like red ochre, for cultural
purposes. Face painting and tattooing, also derive
from ancient art as practiced around the world,
from North America to New Zealand, while mime
dates back to dramatic gestural art forms of
Ancient Greece.
TYPES
• Performance –Related Body Art
-This form (known as “Art Corporel” in France) is exemplified by
the Serbian artist “Marina Abramovie”.
• Body Painting
-First practiced during the stone age, body painting has become
a distinctive feature of late 20th century postmodernist art.
• Tattoo Art
-Tattoo is a permanent mark or design on the body made by
introducing inedible ink into the dermis layer of the skin. Tattooing
has been a popular form of bodily decoration since the era of
Neolithic Art.
• Face-Painting
-also dates from the era of paleolithic art and culture, and was first
employed as a means of identifying key individuals such as shamans
and tribal chiefs.
• Mime and Living Statues
-Mime (from the Greek word “mimos” meaning “actor”) is the art of
conveying action, emotion and/or character, sorely by using bodily
gestures or movements.
• Nail Art
-The latest type of the body art to hit the beauty salons and catwalks.
It includes any form of decorative art applied to fingernails and toenails.
• Human Nude-Scape Photography
-This type of body art is exemplified by the work of American
Photographer spencer tunick.
GRAFFITI ART
One of the most radical contemporary art
movements, “graffiti art” ( also called “Street Art”,
“Spray can Art” , “Subway Art” or “Aerosol Art “)
commonly refers to decorative imagery applied by
paint or other means to buildings, public transport or
other property. A though it may be said to derive from
Classical Antiquity or even Prehistoric times, the term
essentially describes the post 1960’s craze for
decorating/ defacing the urban environment through
the use of aerosol spray paint and markers, which
emerged in New York and Philadelphia and which has
since developed strong links with underground hip hop
culture and B-boying.
HISTORY
The movement emerged amid a flurry of urban
street protest on both sides of the Atlantic about
1968. in Europe, it arose during students protest
in Paris and Berlin; In America it appeared in
Philadelphia, then New York where it blossomed
into a major form of urban contemporary art.
TYPES
• Street Gang Art
- In the early days, graffiti art was used by gangs
in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York like
savage nomads, La Familia etc.
• Anarchist Street Art
-A personal graffiti art by far the largest category.
• Political Protest Art
-A embracing authentic political protest, is
exemplified by urban murals painted in Belfast and
derry.

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