Free Slide 2 Essay Sample

Jewelry, clothing and other personal accessories became a fixture in a beautiful person. One of the oldest ways to decorate your own body known to mankind is the tattoo.

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In overall, the evolution of the body art can be divided into 3 parts:
Part 1-Ritual body art
Part 2- 1960-1980- the birth of a new art form
Part 3-Contemporary body painting (after 1980)
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In some cases, the tattoo was used to designate of belonging to a family, community or tribe, as well as to impart sexuality. In the negative sense, tattoos were symbols of slavery, mark the rogue and unwanted. Tattoos have always been one of the most common types of body art.

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      The word "tattoo" comes from the old Polynesian word "tatao", which literally means "to tap" or "mark something." (Long, 2009) This word was coined by Captain James Cook in approximately 1769.

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Science of modern archeology confirmed the existence of tattoos on the territory of the Roman Empire, Egyptian, Greek and Japanese civilizations. In this now proven that tattoo done in Egypt even before the pyramids. The Greeks used tattoos to denote different symbols of slavery, as well as to transmit secret messages between the spies. In Asia, the tattoo was used to refer to the age of a person

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The first experiences of the XX century in the direction of body art dates back to the year 1910, it was when Russian Futurism in the presentation M. Larionov announced that "it's time to break into the art of life" and "prettification person - is the beginning of the invasion."

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In the time around 1960, artists were searching of new ways of expression, new forms of painting, provoking and shocking. They need attention and have a massage!
- Fine art body painting
- Advertising
- Fashion body painting
- Commercial body painting
- UV body painting
- Competition body painting etc. (Bella Vollen)