Taking a Look at Body Art

Upon reading, I noticed the thesis had 2 arguments even though and I understood that this essay pertained to how social media caused body image issues for teens. One of the topics consisted of how social media causes teens to have "excessive concern[s] on looking perfect," and another subject matter on how phones allowed for photographs to occur anywhere. Therefore, I find it unnecessary to include the phrase - "with their phones it is easier to to take pictures everywhere." Aside from that and a couple grammatical errors, the thesis is well-written with a clear standpoint, which holds social media as the culprit in this

The body art is an ancient concept of human society. Tattoo and body piercing are the current and common trends of the body art in the American culture. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong to have these things on an individual’s body, if he or she is an art lover but if someone have this just because virtual world personalities have these then it is not relevant for him or her. As my classmates Juliet and Daniela have been mentioned about the harmful consequences of these things on human body in some ways.

Different fashions will come in and out of style but people want to be able to stand out in their own manner showing the world how they express themselves. A common form of self-expression is by getting a piercing or tattoo, something that can set a person apart from the majority. Body piercings and tattoos on women at one time were unacceptable and distasteful in the United States. However over time women having assorted types of body art has become more acceptable in society. Today young women at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, use piercings and tattoos as a form of self-expression that is vastly encouraged by peers and social media. Each woman has a different reason for why they personally want a piercing or a tattoo but are there some factors that have influenced the college community of women as a whole?

The Gathering is an acrylic painting of a woodpile in Peterborough, NH. The image represents the gathering of ideas and people that led the painting’s success. The first visual element that comes to mind when I look at this painting is the direction. The painting’s direction is vertical because it gives the illusion that the viewer is looking towards the top of a hill to a woodpile. The woodpile is considered the “figure” in which is detached and focused on while the surround hill is the “ground”.

The first art work I observed was called “Black Is the Color” by Paul Stephen Benjamin. The artwork is located in the Stent Family Wing of the High Museum, it was produced in 2014 and is from the modern time period. The structure is made of old televisions of all shapes and sizes are unevenly stacked on top of each other much unorganized. The televisions come about five feet off the ground, and there are wild cords wrapped around the floor and also some of the televisions. The space where the televisions are located is very dark, the only light in the area comes from the televisions themselves. On the screen of the television is an African-American women singing into a microphone, playing the piano as well. In some televisions the picture is cropped and you can only see her face and the piano can’t be seen to the viewer. In other televisions the color of the actual picture is different from others.

Records of various ancient and modern tribes from Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia show clear records of their body painting heritage. By using natural pigments from plants and fruits, ancient people decorated themselves with ritual paintings, tattoos, piercings, plugs and even scarring. According to many historians, body painting was the important part of the daily and spiritual lives, often showcasing their inner qualities, wishes for future, images of gods, and many natural or war themes. There, body paint was often applied for weddings, preparations for war, death or funerals, showcasing of position and rank, and rituals of adulthood. In addition to temporary body paints, many cultures used face paint or permanent tattooing

In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, One Art, it displays the acceptance Bishop has for losing things. Each stanza the losses get more significant, until she finally displays the one thing she can’t accept losing. Elizabeth Bishop uses techniques such as verse form and repetition to display her feelings toward those losses.

This image has mainly all 2-D form, however the mountains or trees that are in the bottom right almost look 3-D. There are a variety of lines including vertical lines that make up the church or tall building down in the village. Another type of lines in the image are horizontal, these lines create a lot of the houses or buildings in the village. The tall brown tree or object in the front of the artwork is created with vertical and curved lines. There are also repeated curved lines in the sky, which creates movement and visual repetition. There are also curved lines that make the moon, the mountains or hills behind the village, and the dark area on the far right in the middle of the piece. The sky also has big spiral lines. There are also a

Hello Aurelia, I completely agree with you. The views of the human body have shifted and changed throughout time. What I found interesting was that once the Greeks achieved their “perfect” image of the human body, they didn’t seem satisfied. We as humans are driven not only by our culture, but by the need to exaggerate (Nigel Spivey, Episode 1). In my opinion, this means that maybe we are not always satisfied with the realistic perception but rather the exaggerated one. There can be a variety of reasons for this. I also have seen some of these pieces of artwork, but I have not researched their meanings or why they were ever created. Watching this video did give me some knowledge about the things that influenced their artwork. As you mentioned

Almost seven feet tall, a life-like sculpture stands, broad and muscular, in the middle of the National Archeological Museum, Naples, Italy. Made of bronze yet so full of life, the Spear Bearer is one of many ancient Greek sculptures surviving, as good as new, till this day. On the other side of the world stands the New York Kouros at the Metropolitan Museum, rigid and awkward, and all together unrealistic. However, Greek art, especially Greek sculpture and vase painting has not always portrayed the human body in such a perfect and idealistic way. Up until 500 BCE, Greek sculpture and statuary specifically were completely different to what is seen and defined as ‘Greek sculpture’ today while Greek vase painting and other representations of the human body maintained their less realistic style. The Greeks not only developed but also improved their artwork of the human figure throughout Early Greece only to present a better and more idealistic image of sculpture using naturalism and realism towards the Classical period.

I am Alicia Miller, entrepreneur, and owner of the business "Art and Soul." "Art and Soul" is an art studio and supply shop for all types of artists. I came up with the idea for the store from my love of art and my idea of becoming a psychologist. The business now has developed into a different idea from my first vision of it. The first idea was an art studio, to sell works of art. Then art therapy- you could guess how quickly that was shot down. At last, I came up with the final design of a teaching location mixed with a supply shop. I, for one, think it was my best idea out of the three.

Historicaly, women have been used as subjects for art by male artists. These images represent women as sexualized objects for the male gaze or as an ideal figure. Most of these women have no identity beyond their physical bodies. The paintings of passive nude reclining women began to appear in the 15th century Renaissance in Western Europe. These reclining nude women are commonly shown in compositions that accentuate the glow of their skin. The paintings show a close-up image of the naked woman reclining on a bed, and their sexualized naked bodies span the entire width of the canvas. The hands and feet of these reclining nude women commonly remain inside the picture's frame, and the women are sometimes shown as asleep, often facing the viewer

Society is making a grand impact towards the new generation and modern society, But what are the troubles with society? Society has a view towards what is revolving around the world, and the what the generation might be looking at in the mirror. That's why most adolescents have trouble feeling as if their fitting in and looking “ideal”. The way people at a young age look at themselves and they often start to worry about their body image is normal, but some issues still interact as the younger part of society keeps on growing.

As we move away from theatre into other cultures we see that in history artist would sculped and paint the human body or even modifying their own by adding things such as feathers, piercings, tattoos,

Although there was a lot of passing in my family, growing up I was never allowed to come near a deceased body, even that of a family member. My grandma told me that in our Vietnamese culture, there was this notion that the souls of the death get attached to innocence children, causing them to encounter bad luck in life and sickness especially if the passing individual was ill. I was skeptical of the notion and took it for what it is – a superstition. On the other hand, my family takes the dead very seriously, so the thought of donating one body to science is out of the question. No one, who attended the funeral, was allowed into the main house until they have changed out from the clothes they wore to the funeral. And immediately, the funeral