Body art is very broad term which includes ear piercing to a funky painting or you can say everything related to skin decoration. Today there is a craze among college students especially to get a funky Painting done. Having a body art done is a means to express themselves and their individuality.
Besides piercing and body painting is growing in popularity as a body art form. Body art painting treats human body as a blank canvas, and beautiful crafty colorful pictures are drawn on it. Although this artistry may not be your drawing room’s show case they are still splendid.
These days companies have employed a new marketing funda of using body painting as a form of advertising. Many advertisements showcase the models with company logos painted onto their bodies.
Be it a sports day at school or cricket match in the country or going in discs beautiful body art, or painting is apparent. Fans many times express their love and compassion for their favorite team by painting the team mascot or writing their favorite team’s name.
Painting asthe popular body art
Painting are very old art, anciently practiced as marking to identify animals or some convicts and also as permanent ornaments to decorate the body. The word Painting is actually derived from a Tahitian word “Tatau.” The regularly growing passion Painting differ in patterns between males and females. Where males prefer tribal, skull, scorpion patterns, females go for angel, sun, moon patterns.
Painting may be permanent or temporary. Heena or mehandi, sticker Painting or that drawn from water colors is temporary Painting. Permanent Painting are much painful and costly too. Inspite of pain involved Painting has been practiced by modern as well as tribes across the world. The procedure of making Painting too sports a wide variety; in some cultures Painting are formed from scaring and rubbing it with ashes or charring while pricking with thorns to insert dyes in others.
Uses of Painting
1. Decorative and spiritual uses of Painting involve symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery, mark of fertility, amulets and talismans for protection.
2. Now-a-days people choose to be Painting for cosmetic and sentimental purposes. Extensive decorative Painting is common for traditional freak shows and by performers who follow in their tradition.
3. Painting are a marking that gives an idea about status and rank of an individual.
4. The Painting were carved out for identification of inmates by Nazis. Sometime a Painting can be useful for forensic pathologists as they might help identify burned or mutilated bodies.
5. These days for the cosmetic purpose Painting are marked as permanent eyebrows, lips liner or lipstick, eye liner and even moles.
6. A new application of Painting is ‘Medical Painting.’ Painting are used for in repeated radiotherapy and for breast reconstruction.
Method of Painting
Modern days Painting parlors mushrooming in cities uses the electric Painting machine which has an oscillating unit that has a mount of group of needles. These needles dipped in Azo- or Acri- dyes goes in and out of the skin around 80-150 times resulting into a gorgeous Painting.
So, be sure to do some research and think about the pains before GAIN….
Look at a cave painting- beasts in profile, perhaps a hunt- painted with pigments from the earth mixed with the fat of the animals it portrays. I see remnants of another era. I see a mural painted by people like you and I- more so than we might want to believe
As you look, feel the experience of this painting. Can't you see the light from the fire flickering? Smell the cave. Close your eyes and feel the damp air around you? You are in a cave, painting on the walls the essence of the daily lives of you and your community. Imagine it
Imagine what it would be like to live in 15,000 B.C.E. This is long before any of the comforts we know has even remotely been thought of. This is long before transportation and communication was even possible, save for between your immediate surroundings
It's long before supermarkets and specialists- so you have to make your own clothes, catch and prepare your own food- with a limited diet, and completely take care of yourself, without dentists, doctors, or anybody else because you barely even understand your own body and how it works. Your life expectancy is about thirty, you will die of a common cold- if you survive through the winter at all, and danger lurks around every corner. How does it feel?
