Shock wave of human body art in human body painting

Up to now, the craze for body photography in China is the first shock wave in China art circles in the new period. Body photography will be so fashionable in a few years, and it always seems to come and go for no reason. So ups and downs, constantly tossing and turning. Everything in the world must have its own law of development. The reason why we didn't come and go is because we don't seem to have discovered this rule, and it's not terrible not to have discovered it. What is terrible is that our theoretical circle and critical circle, art and scientific knowledge are so rich that we can't get it without research. (democritus) We should treat the craze for human photography in China with an attitude of observation and research.

Apart from the political climate and the obvious factors with China characteristics that are inconvenient to explain, the development of human photography in the new period is actually meaningful and even worth discussing. Because we can't ignore the difference between the pleasure of a work of art and that of a plate of ice cream. What do people see when they look at an aesthetic object? What do they mean, like it or not? Why do they like what they like? (America) arnheim: A New Theory of Art Psychology, The Commercial Press, 1996, p. 57. In fact, each of us is very clear in our hearts. In our hearts, our yearning for the human body can even be said to be a deep complex of our cultural psychology. Even if we come from China, even if our culture has all kinds of inexplicable rejection of it, we still can't let go, stay out of it and deceive ourselves!

This may be the reason why human photography has experienced ups and downs, but it has never died out. It's like that famous saying, people! You created God according to your own desires! (Germany) Hegel: Aesthetics, Volume I, Commercial Press, 1982, page 30 1-302, because people rest and correct themselves in appreciation and examination, and then move on!

In mythology, the god of mind is called psyche (Latin means psyche), which is also the root of the word "the center of many western languages". This spiritual god has changed in different periods, but her main image remains unchanged. She is a beautiful goddess with wings and flies like a butterfly. Fang Hanwen: History of Western Literature Psychology, Shaanxi People's Publishing House, 1999, p. 4] Surprisingly, there are several beautiful goddesses with wings flying like butterflies in this exhibition in Li Fan. I don't know if this is a simple imitation or a psychological coincidence of creation. Although I am quite familiar with Li Fan, I didn't ask him, because I know that language is often redundant and counterproductive about photography and photographers. Because we know that for photography, the most important thing is to rely on eyes and brains. Because we only have one mind, and this mind does not include any part of the differences; This same heart is both emotional and rational, and all its desires are also some wills. Kadir: Feeling of the Mind, quoted from Selected Works of Western Ethics, Commercial Press, 1996, p. 598.

Nowadays, the word imitation is used on artists who have started for a long time, which will make people feel very useless. Because all artists are most keen on creation, not imitation, so whoever imitates will be scolded, at least this is the framework of secular culture. However, we should not forget that all cultures (including the so-called art) are inherited first and then innovated. Absolutely, all of us are doing 99% inheritance and 1% innovation. No one can be outside! In addition, especially in human photography, our imitation is still very heavy. Because photography itself is imported, I dare not say that we are not used to foreign things, nor dare I say that photography has been here for so long, but all cultural people know that the integration of all cultures is a long process. And we happen to be in the process. As for human photography, it belongs to the sub-concept of photography, especially so.

Admitting this fact is not our sadness, but our calmness and confidence. Because I dare not face the reality, let alone surpass it.

Art is more and more like a call girl. As long as you need it, you can commit yourself to you by hook or by crook and make a gesture as much as you can.

Both performance art and body art are imported. When those inexplicable performance arts are still noisy, body art has appeared in the form of BLACKPINK, creating hot spots and catching everyone's attention. I wonder if this is the artist's self-abandonment or the cynicism of art critics. I wonder if this is a kind of confusion and confusion before surpassing, or a kind of dead silence and decay before falling? However, I think this situation will never last!

I have always divided the realm of human body photography into three categories: one is to shoot the human body, just like shooting cars, buildings, mountains and rivers, bridges; The second is to photograph the human body as if writing hymns to lovers or doing Dojo for the dead; The third category is to look at and think about other people's bodies as their own.

Modernity is an era of diversified values, not an era of either-or values and moral judgments. These three categories don't really matter. But all cultural problems can be attributed to values and moral judgments, which are unavoidable for all of us, so we have a lot of pain and culture has added a lot of embarrassment. An eternal intuition in the depths of human spirit is obviously a kind of beauty. Poe: the principle of poetry. In my simple understanding, all audiences have their own intuition about all arts, which can also be called aesthetic identification and value judgment.

This may also be the weakest link of China's body art, and it is also the most likely breakthrough to connect with the world. I may be talking nonsense.

I also noticed that the way people in China look at human photography is wrong. What China people said at the Body Film Festival was wrong. Most of the comments about human photography are serious!

It is easy to think that after the Renaissance, in the early salons of western aristocratic ladies, even words describing human parts and physiological phenomena such as tooth sigh and chest will be considered vulgar and cannot be used, but should be replaced by other euphemistic metaphors. This kind of atmosphere can reflect the gorgeous rhetoric and demanding form of French classicism, and this style has a great influence on other European countries. This humanistic phenomenon can still be felt when we read western literary works today. In the novel, the ladies from other provinces are described as arty, and they don't have to swear. For example, I use my handkerchief to wipe my nose, which vividly depicts the scene of Russian nobles blindly worshipping French classicism and affectation, from which we can see how wide the influence of French classicism is. Has this stale humanistic atmosphere disappeared in today's China? I said, absolutely not! Damn it, it's not that easy to die China has been fighting against feudalism for a century, but feudalism has not been completely eliminated. What's more, China's culture has always had a bad habit of looking up to western culture. Perhaps, as Mr. Lu Xun said, even the children in the bathtub fell down when pouring bath water, and the dross was regarded as the standard when absorbing western culture.

There are problems of cultural tradition and humanistic environment. But in the final analysis, it hits the soft spot of our history and culture, that is, whether we can be people-oriented, respect human nature, seek truth from facts and live a real and happy life. Art is the creation of symbolic forms of human emotions. [Susan Langer: "Emotion and Form", China Social Sciences Press, 1986, p. 5 1 page] Biology always wants to obtain the eternity of form, but the eternity of form is not its ultimate goal, but a goal that is constantly pursued and realized all the time. Because achieving this goal depends entirely on life activities. [Susan Langer: Emotion and Form, page 79] Recognizing this, body art seems to be no longer a romantic issue, but has risen to the height of improving the quality of life, purifying human nature and promoting the process of civilization.

I heard that in the mainstream western society,; This is not a pornographic publication. Compared with those real pornographic publications, one of them is that it won't publish any pictures of women exposing their private parts. Because Hefner is really a master of scales. So even in pornographic scenes, people think it's sexy! Sexy! Extremely sexy, and how to make men excited to have sexual fantasies, but also make women equally excited. Perhaps, the feeling of a man peeping at a woman is a familiar scene in the plot of sexual fantasy, so it is better to say that she respects women than that it properly grasps this scale. However, the undeniable fact is that women's nudity is still a real sensory stimulus for people. Because just like Brooke's buttocks, people finally found that when people are full of imagination about women's breasts, it is the buttocks that can really mobilize men's emotions, so Miss Bu's buttocks will have such an eye-catching effect. Therefore, the effect of female nudity is really not as exciting as creating female sexiness in appropriate parts and sizes, and this way will not touch the scale of human pornography. Some people say that now is an era of public voyeurism, because those respectable bosses, like those street hooligans, have the same enthusiasm for voyeurism, and this voyeurism has been manifested in an increasingly open way. Metaphysical refers to the Tao, while physical refers to the device.

Human body photography is human body photography. You can't add a fig leaf to it just because you want to accommodate the national conditions, and you can't be mysterious without understanding the connotation of human body art. Although human body photography is indeed a stopwatch that is difficult to grasp, no matter how much left and right it is, it is likely to fall into an embarrassing and ruthless situation, and it is also very likely to ruin the photography art and add chaos to society. Because art and pornography are often only one step away.

So the inscription of Delphi in ancient Greece on the temple of Apollo is self-knowledge and temperance. In our ancient culture, there is also a saying that there is only caution and Shintoism. In this regard, it should be said that we China people should do well and grasp the best, because what we have always boasted most is the golden mean of our oriental culture, and some people have summarized China's philosophy as the golden mean philosophy. But, unfortunately, it is also incredible. It is precisely because we always can't grasp this problem and the operation is not in place. At least in human photography, it is often like this!

I don't understand it as a technical problem, but an ideological problem.

Although the ideological ego controls the imaginary ego, the artist may not realize this, because he only realizes that he is imagining, not thinking; He knew that something different from imagination was controlling his imagination, but he didn't know that it was his own thought. [Collingwood: Essays on Philosophy of Art, quoted from Judy's Contemporary Western Aesthetics, China Social Sciences Press, 1984, p. 75]. Because, this is the old saying, how can people wake up when they are dizzy. If you want to speak brilliantly, you must first think clearly; If you want to do it well, you must first think clearly! Because when we build a healthy social civilization system, we should not only admit that civilization is an ideal, but also set sail for it. At the same time, we need to be aware of the soil and reality of uncivilized production, so that Jesus belongs to Jesus and Satan belongs to Satan. However, a just, healthy and positive modern civilization system has a long way to go, and his thought is complicated, which depends on rational promotion, good-will guidance and scientific research. There is always a saying in the old play: cry out your sadness through someone else's memorial service. At this point, I realized the true meaning of this sentence. I'm talking about the Tang Jiali incident. I've been thinking about China's body art for a long time. There's something wrong with that. Stop it!