What's wrong with "body painting" entering the campus?

The author learned that recently, at the scene of the freshman orientation party of the School of Foreign Languages of Nanjing Normal University. The appearance of body painting has caused controversy among students. News details, a melodious "Legend", a woman slowly came on stage, wearing an evening dress under the light. When she turned around, there was another involuntary exclamation outside. Her bare back is painted with beautiful patterns! "ah! It is body painting! " A commotion spread rapidly under the stage.

The student questioned: "It's really strange, but is it too exaggerated to put this kind of program at the orientation meeting in the department?" Some students are whispering among the audience. A girl from the Foreign Languages Institute said that it is better to be pure on the university stage. She thinks this kind of body painting is too enchanting, more like a performance in some entertainment places in society. She said she was "shocked" However, many students appreciate this performance. "I appreciate such art! Show your originality. And it's not a nude photo. Isn't there a picture on it? " . "Only people with impure inner thoughts will think this kind of beauty is pornography!" Tao, a student at the Art College, said: "This is nothing new. It's good. College students have a sense of beauty. Showing beauty in this way is good for the school. "

The school's answer: According to Teacher Jiang of Foreign Languages Institute, the author introduced the body painting program to the scene of the college students' welcome party, mainly considering that the post-80 s and post-90 s college students have a strong ability to accept new things easily, and their requirements for beauty and their ability to appreciate beauty are getting higher and higher.

"In a sense, body painting is to give new students a strong visual and spiritual impact. Only with enough courage can we break traditions and taboos and create a free space for the greatest affirmation and understanding of beauty, which is also a university culture. "

Juwan's Short Comment: As a college student, from the perspective of appreciation, good body painting is a perfect combination with human aesthetic feeling. No matter the shape, color and location, it is just right, and it is in harmony with the temperament and clothing of the painted object, and the overall concept is coordinated. How to appreciate human body painting depends on guidance. It is up to painters and the media to correctly guide the audience's aesthetic direction and concepts. Painters should create truly beautiful works, not low-level, pornographic and kitsch, and make people feel beautiful, otherwise it will easily lead people to misunderstand the industry. Just like when body painting first appeared, people almost talked about the color change of painting. Appreciating human body painting should pay more attention to artistry, which requires a lot of practitioners. Many domestic painters with weak foundations mostly imitate. This kind of work is lifeless and destroys the original charm of the work. Graffiti-style works give people a dirty feeling, and informal works will be rejected. Appreciating human body painting, I appreciate the beautiful and elegant painting style, that is, making full use of the natural curve of the human body, and being able to hide the private parts of the human body beautifully and meticulously in the painted patterns. And inferior works often fall into the misunderstanding of pornography. If people blindly emphasize the influence of nudity, I think this is actually the biggest unhealthy and immoral.

My uncle's perspective: In the growing fever of body painting on campus, when it comes to private parts painting, the author should first explain that body painting is not for human organs, on the contrary, human organs are for body painting. When painting in private parts, the pattern should be completely integrated with the human body, rather than highlighting these parts and pursuing sensory stimulation. In daily life, I personally think that the painting of private parts mainly depends on the wishes of the person being painted, and it is ok to ask for it yourself. Painting body painting in private parts is actually a very normal thing, just like art and photography, it is not as narrow and ambiguous as most people think. In the understanding and acceptance of human body art, the north is much better than the south. The human body is alive, and human body painting shows another kind of life. As a painter, if you have evil thoughts when you create, you are not worthy of this job at all.

The author himself is conservative and doesn't quite agree with the practice of painting private parts. Since it is a "private" part, it is a very private place. I think it is unsightly to take private parts as the object of curiosity, and youthful vitality does not have to be reflected in this way. Beauty should be positive and inclusive, not comprehensive, which often makes people guess and hazy. The human body is endless mystery, but nudity is a pity.

Personally, I think that the creation of body painting should try to avoid highlighting the private parts of the human body. Therefore, the evaluation of this campus painting, whether it is elegant or vulgar, largely tests the understanding of art in colleges and universities in our country, and the key depends on our aesthetic angle.