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.
Matthew - this is a truly inspiring and positive blog (beginning)! So many places to go, explore, etc...
ReplyDeletePerhaps get a historical context: the body represented in art - through history... Use your text book (and other sources) to look at how the human (male and female) body is represented...
Artists (contemporary) you could look at, include: Frida Kahlo, Orlan, Antony Gormley...and of course - the history & cultures of tattoos.
Agreed! Those who give tattoos are usually called "tatoo artists". I do think some may take it more seriously or see it in a different way than others, but it is definitely art! Unless, you think art depends on the intention rather than the actual act of creating a picture. Some might...What do you think? I think that because it's creating a picture, it's art.
ReplyDeleteMORE BLOGS Matthew, in order to possibly bump-up your blog grade!
ReplyDeleteFrom here on, I would suggest a focus. Choose an arts-based: topic, artist, work, style, historical context, technique, discipline - anything - and use this as an on-going research tool; that will or could feed into your up-coming essay...
...Use this time - the mid-term - to tighten-up your blog. To critically explore a field of interest pertinent to you. Schedule a tutorial with me, if you would like help, feedback or direction.
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