Art is an elegant culture, formed in the course of history, perfected in the development of civilization, and to some extent represents the degree of human civilization. With the development of society, art has gradually come out of museums and studios and has fallen into the homes of ordinary people. This is a very good phenomenon, which not only represents the improvement of the public art level, but also represents an increase in the vitality of art. In this process, many businesses aimed at business opportunities, or changed the face of art, or covered the original artefacts with the name of art, and swaggering at the market to open the door for their interests. "Body painting" belongs to the former, and the controversial "body Sheng" is the latter.
It is true that body painting itself is a kind of body art and human aesthetics. It shows the state of life and the harmony between beauty and nature and social environment. Among them, there is information that body painting can be traced back to the origin of the primitive man wearing a clay (colored earth) smear. In modern society, there is no controversy about the existence of body painting as an art. In many parts of the world, body painting competitions are often held.
But let's take a look at China's body painting. In many cities, body paintings have been put on the streets. People who draw pictures will do improvisation on models wearing only underwear or nude. They are not artists who specialize in body painting. Some of them may not even be called painters. Most of the paintings are simply simple animal designs. There is no artistic value at all. In June 2002, a reporter examined the composition of several human body painters in Beijing, Nanjing, and Wuhan. The general situation was that all organizers were businessmen, some were new product promotion, and some were dumping of used goods. Some of them are new establishments and the painters are mostly local male painters. When drawing, the host presents a “passionate speech†on the artwork and steps that need to be taken to create an atmosphere. The income of models is different because of the degree of exposure to the body. From that point of view, the “body painting†here has completely changed and it has become a “pornographic†tool for merchants to make money. They are the art of hanging lamb, buy commercial dog head.
"Human Body Sheng", no matter what its background, reasons, and status quo, it is simply not art, and even the art of mutton is unworthy, and it completely degenerates into a way for businesses to ignore morality and disregard morality. If it was art, how couldn't the big boss be willing to let his daughter "dedicate himself to art?" It is absurd.
More importantly, in order to block the attacks of public opinion, businessmen still have a similar pattern and put on an artist's style to publicize this kind of “art†that has fallen into pornography, confusing popular ideas and misleading the public. The aesthetic taste of the artist attempts to allow the public to accept this as an art. If they are not successful, it will be a great loss for our true art, our culture, our morality and ethics. In the end, it may be true that "art" will give way to "pornography" of commercial art packaging.
In the market economy, profits are the most primitive driving force. If the government only comes out with a mouse, it will hit one. I wonder how many arts will be poisoned. The government has banned naked body painting performances in public gathering places, and also decided to ban the "human body," but what if another form of things came out?
Of course, what the government can do is prevent it. If it does not stop the symptoms, what really needs to be done is to improve the aesthetic tastes of the public, strengthen moral and ethical awareness, and real gold is not afraid of the fire. At that time, what ideas they can come up with can be thought of. Just toss, no one buy it.