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What is the art of leisure?

Accurately speaking, the current statement of "body art" is not very accurate. The classification of artistic creation is mainly defined by various themes such as hearing, vision and modeling. Generally speaking, "body art" refers to painting, sculpture, photography and all other artistic creations and behaviors related to the human body.

"Body Art" was not invented by China. It originated in Italy and France after the Renaissance in 15 and 16 centuries, and used the theme of ancient myths for artistic creation, which on the one hand showed the beauty of human body, on the other hand showed the truth, goodness and beauty of society and humanity. Its appearance broke the restriction of early religious abstinence on human body. in China. For many years, there has been no theme creation about "body art". If there are any, they are just some folk erotic pictures, medical demonstration textbooks or simulated illustrations. Decades ago, it pioneered the body art in China, and brought the mannequin to the studio for the first time. It was persecuted by the warlord Sun, and it is still talked about by many people in China. In fact, Liu Haili didn't go abroad when launching mannequins, but was influenced by European culture, and began to try to bring European expressions about body art to China. It was China's early body art. After the reform and opening-up, China people's thoughts have been further opened and their aesthetic concepts have been further improved. With the integration of international art, many people began to understand, accept and devote themselves to human body art, and the public's acceptance was more tolerant and enlightened.

To some extent, the development degree of "body art" is a standard to test the civilization degree of a country, which can show the aesthetic taste and civilization degree of ordinary people in a country. That's true. We are now seeing more and more so-called body art under the guise of art. Many commercial activities take "body art" as a gimmick, and some so-called art performances are in full swing. Some people even seduce the audience with some exciting and exciting words. In their words, it is "the culture sets the stage and the economy sings." Here, art is just a platform, and the real protagonist is economy and interests, which is the truth of a series of popular body art now. What I want to say is that a real artist would never create a work like that. The authors of those works are not good artists, let alone excellent artists. The artist himself is very unreliable, simply using a completely pure human body and a completely living human body to express the human body.

Nudity is not necessarily human body art, which are two different concepts. Some people are wrong to confuse nudity with human body art. The so-called human body art refers to works of art in which artists use human body as artistic language and art media to express their thoughts and feelings. That is to say, nudity becomes human art only when it is used by artists to express their artistic thoughts and feelings, otherwise, it is just a pure nudity.