Body painting Techniques
There are several types of body painting techniques. With airbrush, you can apply to three-dimensional body slightly new focus.
Fat or cream make-up - "Supra Color" - are breathable, non-toxic and can be applied with brush or sponge. Washable. Wet paint is wipe-proof if it is powdered or treated with fixative. Wet paint or Aqua Color is ideal for large body painting and is easy to remove. |
Body painting India
In India and other Hindu dominated countries of South Asia live Sadhu called ascetic monks. These belong to various Hindu religious and maintain a simple and modest life. While most of the body painting limited to sign face, brush some of the body with ashes or other substances. Many sadhus are often hold only a loincloth.
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Body painting Japan
Body painting plays in Japan at the Kabuki actors a role. Here the paint is applied very thick and bright. They covered the original face and draws the character to be displayed on the face of the actor. Men played earlier in the Kabuki theater all female roles. This was possible only with good makeup.
Japanese geishas can work even in advanced age or because it is not due to sex, but about the great art of entertainment to dance and song. The thick white face paint covered all the wrinkles. The red mouth pretending to youth. |
Body painting New Zealand
In the Maori in New Zealand show the "Moko" ornaments in their faces, to which tribe they belong. The initiated can read it, which enjoys reputation of the institution and who were his ancestors.
The ornaments were previously placed with sharpened hammers and small animal bones under the skin. When color is a mixture of coconut oil, mashed plant parts, finely crushed stone, and carbon black was used. Today, Western tattooing techniques applied or, for tourist shows, color painted on the face, a real tattoo is very similar. |
Body painting Islam
The shape of the semi-permanent body painting with henna has its origin in North Africa and the Middle East. It spread to the Islamic conquest of India and Southeast Asia to Indonesia. In addition to the body painting with henna is also being painted with water-resistant Galltinten, Harkus (North Africa) or Khidab (Yemen) called, are often used together. Because of the black appearance of the painting was of rapporteurs, usually very inaccurate, as described black henna or confused with it.
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Body painting Presence
In the Western world for circus artists developed a particular form of body painting, the most common form should be more of a clown.
In the 1960s it came in the modern Western world to a revival of body painting (Body-Art: The body is viewed as a medium or art object), supported by the liberalization and the free movement of the former movement. However, there are today a social discussion about whether it is the body painting to an art form.
Today, body painting especially at football games, or rave events are supported, but there is also widespread that children paint the face at parties and birthdays. Since the 1990s, particularly among young people of the Western world, henna tattoo in fashion.
On 12 Alex Barendregt founded in October 2001 in Austria, the European Bodypaintervereinigung EBPa (European Body Painting Association). Because of the now international participation of the Körperbemalern EBPa named 2004 World Body Painting Association (WBPA) around. This also holds the world championship of the body and face painting in Austria. It is under the patronage of WBPA and worldwide more and more similar events on the topic. The largest and most important event for the body paint is the World Body Painting Festival, the World Cup, the body artist.
In Germany, this art is enjoying increasing popularity. Körperbemaler now from all over the country and go beyond the borders of the annual "German Body Painting Festival". Specializing in the field of Gesichtsschminkens Meanwhile, the "Festival of Colors" has. Here additionally interested young is sponsored by the alignment of pure student competitions. |
War paint
The tradition of war paint is very old and existed in almost every culture on earth. Even the Picts, Britons, Gauls and Teutons painted her face with blue paint. The point of the war paint is to be a formidable appearance, and thus to confuse the enemy and instill fear him. The war paint is thus a very old form of psychological warfare. In Europe, Waid was often used for blue color. Many Germanic tribes moved completely painted black in the fight. The Indians often use red earth tones, which earned them the derogatory term "redskins". Later, when the Native Americans on horses possessed, she painted with war paint and symbols. Even today, the stone age living in Papua New Guinea Papua use of war paint.
Anonymity is on the war paint should not be underestimated factor. If a tribe invades his neighbors, is going to assume that the victims of the faces of the aggressors are often known. After all, one is aware of challenges at the water points, to trade at festivals and celebrations, or on other occasions. But in war paint is no longer recognizable as individuals. He becomes a stranger and can proceed even more brutal than he would do it without the defaced-making war paint. In modern armies Tarnschminke is used to camouflage the face. |
History of body painting
Origins
The painting of the body with colored materials are available in the history of mankind since ancient times. The Stone Age people painted with earth colors: ocher with, the black manganese oxide or charcoal. They painted with animal hair, which they tied to poles or they wore the same colors on hand.
Won, these natural pigments of colored earth. This powder is mixed with a binder such as water or vegetable oils or animal fats. The use of color is demonstrated by findings in caves such as the Grotte Chauvet in southern France, one of the most important "pictures caves in the world.
Of great importance had the body painted with the Indians. The painting was considered a measure of esteem within the group. She gave information about the merits of a man in hunting and war. The color red was the color of war and symbolized the success, while the color blue embodied (such as the Cherokee) defeat and trouble.
With the aborigines in Papua New Guinea's face and body were painted on special festive occasions such as initiation ceremonies, funeral feasts, hunts or healing ceremonies. The painting was the one perceived as aesthetically and signaled to the others, the social status of a tribal member.
The color red was attributed to the tribes of Africa curative effect. The young men and women have contributed to the initiation ceremonies, the color white, which they made from clay, flour, kaolin, or crushed shells as a symbol of purity.
The possible meanings of these characters were or still are:
* Jewelry of the body
* Protection against external influences, demons and magic
* Protect the body from insects
* Medical and hygienic purposes
* Camouflage
* Grief
* War Paint
* Identification |
Body painting
Body painting is a form of body shaping. This color is applied directly to the skin. The body paint has a few hours to several weeks (henna tattoos), but in contrast to the Tattoo is not permanent. |
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