Painted body.
Painting body is one of the most popular form of decorating our body and unlike the others it is not painful but the effects are temporary. Access to pigments depends on the geographical environment. In cultures which is not infected by modern civilisation pigments were natural, nowadays when civilisation reaches everywhere using natural pigments is not necessity but tradition.
Most common colors used to painting body are black, white and red. Black pigmenst are made from charcoal or burned wood. White is made from clay and red is made from ochre.
Oils or grease is used as a glue.
The paint is put on with brush or a stick or with fingers.
Area around Mount Hagen city in New Gwinea, which i ssettled by people who not only cover their body with paint during ritual ceremonies but to woo somebody or during the ordinary day. To make their skin shinny thay rub it with pig_grease.
Thay put a lot of effort to make drawings on a face look good very often with help of a member of a tribe. Patterns on men_faces are entirely different from drawings on women_faces. The main difference is that whole man_face in first place is painted in black.
Very beautiful patterns are painted on bodys of The Nuba tribe_members in Sudan. Those patterns are expression of aesthetic needs of this tribe. Decorating body on purpos for aesthetic reasons can definittly be called art. Particulary parts of the pattern painted on a body enhance one_distinguishing features. It seems that painted man is trying to show that he is healthy and attractive they also shows his talent.
Tatoo
There are lots of proofs that tatoos was made 4000 years ago in ancient Egipt. The best remain egzample of ancient tatoo is skin of Scyt_chief, which was found in 1948 in Kazachstan. The age of this skin is estimated at 2000 years. Romes discovered many cases of tatooing among people they conquered.
In middle ages in Europ habit of tatooing was almost lost because of church activity who considered tatoos as a symbol of paganism but at the same time on the other areas of the world it was very popular.
Amazing, colorful and beautiful tatoos was made in Japan in 18th century.
Tatoo technics used in differnet part of the world are very similar. Pigment is put under the skin with needle. Most common colors are black made from coal or ink. Nowadays tatoos are very popular especially among young people.
Piercing
Rings in a nose, eras or cheeks are very popular among people of Africa and America. Rings are well known in uor culture. Lately young people have rings not only in ears but also in nose, eye brows, navel or other even intimate parts of the body.
It has to said about most conrofversial and bloody ways of changing peoples appearance - what other purpose has plastic surgery, which is lately very popular?
Civilisation has changed only the ways, purpose is the same - people want to bo more beautiful, than they are created by nature.
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