Imagine Your Body an Artistic Piece...!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
With the passage of time, people appreciate the painting of the body. Then it becomes an art. It is the art of body painting. Body painting is approved as an actual art since 1960’s. The traditional kind of body painting is tattoo. It is an old type. It is used for religious purposes or as apart of rites of some cults. This practice is forbidden for some time. But now tattoo is no longer a taboo. It is a kind of art. Some interested artists of tattoo try to make tattoo a piece of art work. Body painting is practiced in the Eastern countries in the world. It is an apart of the tribal culture. In the old ages, Men paint their faces for religious purposes. For instance women and girls in India painted their bodies before the ceremonies of marriage. They make Henna tattoo, which called Mehndi. These paintings symbolize their fertility. This kind of body painting spreads in the western world. Also for several centuries, the clowns and the actors paint themselves. They paint their faces or their whole bodies with the bright colors. Painting is an important part of their artistic show. It serves the kind of art which they present.
Today there is a continuous argument about the legality of body painting as a kind of art. Now there are many festivals of the body painting which attract the professional and the amateurs of this art. There is a huge festival in Austria. It is the World Body Painting Festival. There are more than 150 artists who challenge themselves to produce marvelous artifact. The models are painted in a sexual and a beautiful way. Body painting takes its place in the world of commerce. Many televisions and magazines expose the beautiful painted bodies. The artists of the body painting cooperate in making of some movies especially the fictious movies.
This practice is common during the fairs or in the public parks. Children and the teenagers paint their faces. There are many forms of face paintings such as the tiger, the spider, the butterfly, the cat, the clown and the cartoon characters. The materials which are used during the process of painting should be safe. It is necessary to have no toxic or allergic reactions. It is preferable to test the materials of paintings in small area of the skin before using it.
The space of body painting is very generous. It just needs creative minds and the people who love their bodies apart of art. It can spell some magic into the lookers to these beautiful bodies. It stirs the different emotions towards these masterpieces. Body paintings can add some warmness into the relationships between the lovers. It can changes the dump bodies into live ones. Body painting is simply the unity between human beings and the art itself.
