Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Body art







There are many forms. Some forms are widly debated as art, such as cake design, or sports. Another such debated form of art is body art or tattoos. While there are those who may say that tattoos are mearly graphity on the body, others would say that the artist, or the tattooer, takes great pride in developing ideas, and portraying them on skin. If what is concidered art only that which can be shown in a musem, then many forms of art would not be art. the theater, or movies, for example can not be displayed in conventional musems. at that even in the late 2000, the American Museum of Natural History created an exhibition called “Body Art: Marks of Identity.” those putting on display these tattoos. When talking about paintings as art you have to concider tattoos in the discusion. while picosso and rembrant may have used paper or a canvus, the human body has been the canvos for manhy artist through out the years. Should tattoos be concidered art? Absolutly, many cultaries have used this form of art to commincat through out the history.