Who is the first person in body art in China? Introduce his deeds.

Liu Haisu, a master of fine arts in China in the 1920s, was the first person.

Liu Haisu incident: mannequins trigger social topics.

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20061October 26th, China Newsweek.

Liu Haisu incident: mannequins trigger social topics.

80 years ago, it was an incredible thing that mannequins appeared in China fine arts colleges.

★ Text/Dai Jingting

1926 On July 9th, Liu Haisu, president of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, caused an uproar in the society because of the use of nude models in the school. The court finally ruled that his defense insulted the reputation of two officials and fined 50 yuan. A nude model storm that lasted for 10 years finally subsided.

As early as 19 15, Liu Haisu opened a mannequin sketch class for students. He posted advertisements in the streets and alleys and recruited models with high salaries, but no one wanted to "join the art". I finally found a male model and tried to escape again and again. At the end of 1924, one of his students held an art exhibition in Jiangxi, which was banned by the Jiangxi provincial police because there were several human sketches in the exhibit. Liu Haisu protested angrily and began to publicize human body sketches with great fanfare. He even commented in major media and debated with people from all walks of life. A stone stirred up a thousand waves, and conservatives attacked it as "immoral." Vendors who secretly took photos of erotic palace also took advantage of their blather to sell nude photos of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, which suddenly became the hottest social topic of the year. His approach did not even get the support of the art world at that time.

In May 1926, 1 1, the Shanghai municipal government ordered that nude models of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts be prohibited from sketching. Liu Haisu published a letter of protest in Shenbao, but was accused of "insulting his reputation".

Although the controversy ended in Liu Haisu's defeat, it made Chinese people know body art for the first time. After the Liu Haisu incident, nude model sketch courses appeared in many art colleges, but they were strictly confined to the art world.

"In the 1980 s, the Liu Haisu incident was rediscovered, set as a benchmark, highlighted, and even became the focus of testing social values." Yin Jinan, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, believes that this makes body art move from the art world to the whole society and is finally accepted by the public. In the 1980s, the issue of nudity in art was unprecedentedly acute and sensitive. 1985, a nude painting entered the exhibition of China Art Museum for the first time, which attracted the attention of all foreign journalists in Beijing and regarded it as a signal of China's opening to the outside world.

1988 published the theory of nude art, the first edition printed 200,000 copies and became a best seller. In the same year, the "Oil Painting Body Art Exhibition" attracted 220,000 visitors, which was unprecedented in the number of people participating in the art exhibition.

Now, "the human body has finally completed the process of socialization and has become a part of our social life." Yin Jinan said. The endless stream of human photography, human portraits and hyped film and television nude dramas have also made the human body an important part of commercial consumption. ★