Body art

Tattooing is a unique way of art. Tattoo artist does not require any form of education. “Completion of training program or apprenticeship to earn licensure. Tattoo artists typically exhibit a love of tattooing. There is no national protocol that must be followed in order to become a professional tattoo artist. Using needles and pigments, a tattoo artist applies a permanent design directly to a client’s body. Clients may come to a tattoo artist with a picture or design in mind for the artist…

Johannes Stotter is an artist, musician and body painter from Italy. Johannes sings and also plays the violin in a band. Johannes studies education and philosophy at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Johannes attends many social projects where he combines his music with his art work. Johannes also develops his work without reference to other body painting artists or their work. in 2009 Johannes also secured a place for himself at the international bodypainting Festival in Austria and he…

The Lansdowne private collection consists of over 100 classical art pieces and was accumulated in the late eighteenth century. The two freestanding Greco-Roman sculptures I chose to compare and contrast from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are the Bateman Mercury from 4th century BCE Rome and the Lansdowne Artemis from 1st Century BCE Rome. As soon as I walked into the exhibition hall, these two artworks stood out to me out of the four selections because of the proportion, anatomy, pose,…

“Art is defined as the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination. Producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.” (Oxford Dictionary, 2015). Two artists, Leo Sewell and Betsy Youngquist, both show their imagination and innovation through very different art works. Both of these artists are now known worldwide because of their use of everyday junk objects to create their marvellous artworks. The use of everyday items such as old toys or…

Klimt’s art. Through it he conveys the essence of human form and the nature of it’s existence. In his work he explores a range of human emotion like suffering, love and hope through poses, expressions and gestures, until reaching a peak of emotional intensity. Whist working he used an adjustable easel allowing his to draw from various angles. To develop the female’s languorous bodies in a floating-like manner, he often posed models on beds; a motif very common in his art. Klimt’s taste in art…

Monica Bonvicini, born in 1965 in Venice, a sculptor, video and installation artist, is arguably one of the leading Italian artists today. Bonvicini, educated at the University of Arts in Berlin (1986-93) and the California Institute of Arts in Valencia (1991-2), became seriously recognized by the international art scene in the late-90s. In her vast artistic repertoire, Bonvicini work through a wide range of media and thematics, primarily maintaining the critical, post-conceptual attitude. In…

feminist art movement emerged around the late 1960s. Feminist artists sought after a different world and wanted to change it with their art. The feminist art movement changed woman stereotypes and influenced cultural outlooks. They combined multiple aspects and various medias such as: video art, conceptual art and body art. Feminist artists also opened doors and created opportunities that did not previously exist to minorities and woman artists. It paved a path for identity art and activist art.…

The Fayum portraits are panel paintings that were found in the Fayum oasis in Egypt. The style of this paintings date back to the Hellenistic Period 50BCE-250CE which is the Greek art period. These portraits were attached to mummies to cover the person’s face for burial (Encyclopedia of Art and Classical Antiquates). Fayum portraits illustrated a multicultural society of Roman Egypt. Those paintings were made by using pigments mixed with beeswax and various other ingredients like eggs, resin,…

through time that man may have carved this as a symbol of what the idea woman may have looked. This structure of this piece gives me the idea of independence. I believe that this art piece is open to a lot of interpretations. I plan to structure this intriguing topic starting off talking about the beginnings of this Prehistoric art piece as well as the appearance and fertility, also the environment she might have lived in. The middle of this piece will examine in depth of how this piece is…

You may ask who is Marina Abramovic and how did she become so well know. She is a women that said she thinks of the body as the “point of departure for any spiritual development” and she constantly showed this in her work but she did not become successful overnight. She stared as a young girl born in Serbia in 1946” (SYME, 1). She was raised by Danica her mother and a father by the name of Vojin Abromovic; they were two people basically embedded in the concept on communism and held high…