Preliminary Research: Contemporary Body Art in comparison to Traditional
Prior to our face painting we were encouraged to research the use of body art in both traditional and contemporary times as a source of inspiration for our designs. From my research I noticed the more versatile ways in which artists of the post modern era used the body as a canvas. Whilst traditional art, as evident in the previous post proved to have great cultural significance, contemporary body art acts to reveal the values and ideals of society. This can vary from gender to class, to race to ethnicity to technology to politics to religion to science even to environmental issues. Furthermore traditional forms of body art was limited to adorning the body with the absence of technology. This development in addition to the difference in values has enabled current body art to identify itself in the following forms..
- plastic surgery
- tattoos
- makeup
- hair dyes
- nail art
- 'grills'
- ear stretchers piercings
From this we are enabled to understand the difference in values reflected in most traditional and contemporary forms of body art with beauty playing a large role in contemporary forms.
The three images above of body art in contemporary times revelas the idolisation of beauty, a prevailing value of current society.
The two above images affirm the development of technology in contemporary body art.
Whilst both the images above establish an experience between the artwork, possibly the artist and the audience they also derive from traditional forms of body art. We can gain this understanding from the use of nature in the work in contrast to images such as the first two expressing the idealistic form of beauty.
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