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A few days ago, a photographic equipment market in Wuhan held an activity called "Body Photography Creation Group Competition", and an amazing scene was staged on the spot-mannequins appeared in public! In front of dozens of photographers and audiences, two young women took off their clothes and posed in various poses. About 20 photographers at the scene immediately got excited. In order to choose the ideal shooting angle, they either run around with a tripod, squat or sideways, or simply crawl on the ground. The shutter sound at the scene is louder than fried soybeans. The 23-year-old and 24-year-old models were provided by Shenzhen and specially recruited by the company. The competition is eye-catching in its bold form: mannequins hired by Shenzhen will "enthusiastically" show their bodies to all the contestants for creation. According to the organizer, this move is a breakthrough attempt to bid farewell to the mysterious state of "being conceived in an inner room and no one knows her" and move towards openness. This activity immediately aroused strong repercussions in the society, which triggered people's thinking about human body art. In addition to watching on the spot and satisfying their sensory enjoyment, people could not help but ask many questions. Is it necessary to hold such a big body photography contest? What should the real body art look like? Many viewers at the scene were slightly confused after watching it. Pat the human body like eating steamed bread? The organizer of "U2 Body Photography Creation Group Competition" said: After photography reaches a certain level, not only beautiful clothes should be displayed, but also people should take off their clothes to show the beauty of the human body. For photographers, photographing the human body should be as normal as eating steamed bread, but the situation in our country is completely opposite. It is extremely abnormal that many photographers have never photographed the human body in their lives. This mentality should be the real reason why they "do not hesitate" to encourage girls to "devote themselves to art". Li Jin (a pseudonym), a model, told reporters that all the mannequins in China are amateurs, and her time in this industry is also very short. They can shoot at least once a month. They run around all over the country, tired, but also fun. They shoot for about 3 hours at a time, and they get paid by 500 yuan every hour. Why are most professional models unwilling to devote themselves to this "art"? Are they too feudal and always pretend to be avant-garde, or is there something wrong with this art itself?
Art must be "dedicated"
In fact, body art is nothing new at home and abroad. As early as 1885, when photography was born, the first recorded portrait of human body appeared in France. At the end of 1980s, the first exhibition of human body art painting in New China was held in China Art Museum, which attracted a long controversy, but also won the legitimacy of human body in the art field. Since then, similar human body photography and exhibitions have emerged one after another, such as Hangzhou Human Body Model Art Exhibition, Kunming Human Body Art Exhibition, Chengdu Human Body Model Photography Exhibition, Shenzhen European Human Body Photography Exhibition and Guangzhou Human Body Photography Exhibition. There are so many "human bodies" that some of them are simply beyond people's imagination. The audience began to question, does art have to take off clothes, or is it not art without taking off clothes? Take Hangzhou as an example. Many tourists in Hangzhou feel uncomfortable with such blunt and emotional titles as "naked woman", "naked woman", "female body", "as beautiful as flowers and jade" and "charming in Chun Qing", and they are also labeled as "not suitable for children", which has caused an uproar in public opinion. In this regard, the organizer expressed helplessness: "The titles are all taken by photographers themselves, and they all signed contracts and cannot be changed." However, ordinary people don't buy it. They hope to see a "positive" headline next time.
Photography has also become a performance art?
This reminds people of the so-called "performance art". Zhou Bin, known as one of the eight eccentrics in Sichuan, took a nude bath in Xiaoguanyuan, a famous ancient street in Chengdu, and finished his work "N Screams of the Drowners". Although the author said that the work is rich in connotation, most onlookers still regard it as an out-of-line "game" and shout that they can't understand it. In Nanjing, the first exhibit of a performance art exhibition called "People and Animals: Beauty and Ambiguity", Birthday on May 28th, was blocked by the park staff because the author sneaked into the belly of a bloody dead cow naked in public. After witnessing the performance, many tourists shook their heads to show that they did not understand and could not accept it. An old man who plays in the park all the year round told reporters: "Can this kind of thing be called art? It's nonsense. " The two ladies at the ticket office in the park also said, "This art is disgusting."
The boundary between art and pornography
About the boundary between art and pornography, it has been nearly a hundred years since the debate between Liu Haisu and Sun at the beginning of this century. Facing human body art with a healthy attitude and sincere heart can make it develop. Insiders have different views on the trend of performance art now. An insider who asked not to be named said: "These performance arts misinterpret the original meaning of performance art, and are too morbid and extreme, and are keen on violence, self-abuse, blood and pornography. These scenes strongly stimulate people's senses to achieve fame. This is not art, but visual pollution. In this way, the road of performance art will become narrower and narrower. "
In the face of body art, don't look around and don't talk about it.
It seems that overnight, Tang Jiali and photographer Zhang Xulong attracted the attention of the whole country at the same time because of the "Photo of Tang Jiali's Body Art". But at the same time, there are too many troubles around this book. The most representative is that photographer Zhang Xulong brought Sina.com, who put on the mosaic for Tang Jiali, to court. At the same time, Tang Jiali said in an interview with the media that she was "forced from filming to publishing" and put Zhang Xulong in an awkward position. Body art is not a problem, because the "Tang Jiali incident" has caused some controversy. In fact, it is more a sociological problem and has little to do with art itself. Many "body shows" are actually business shows. The truth of the matter is true: in September 2002, the portrait of Tang Jiali's body art was published by People's Fine Arts Publishing House with a print run of 10000 copies. In less than a month, 5000 photos of Tang Jiali's body art were printed. "Tang Jiali's Body Art Portrait" has been printed four or five times so far, with an additional 5000 copies each time. Even so, the book is out of stock elsewhere. It is said that Wangfujing Bookstore sells about 5 copies of "Portrait of Tang Jiali's Body Art" on average a day, and at most a dozen copies a day, far exceeding similar books. "When the audience is still arguing about the' Tang Jiali incident', many vested interests have become real winners and are secretly counting money.
However, these specious "controversies" can give us some deep thoughts on human body art, which, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with the so-called "Tang Jiali incident".
From June, 5438 to October, 2003, "Contemporary China Human Photography" edited by Han Zishan, a famous professor in Tsinghua University, was released in China. The cover of the package, with the body photography of the famous Hong Kong photographer Deng Zhenqiang as the main picture, deeply touched many readers.
April 1 1 day, famous Australian body photographer James? The China touring exhibition of Houston's photographic work "Instant Dance" was held in Guangdong Art Museum. This album takes the outstanding dancers of three famous dance companies in Australia as the photographic objects. The sculptural human body lines in more than 40 works and the vivid dynamics in static images are amazing.
In mid-May, Shenyang Commercial City was particularly lively. A unique body painting is being staged here. Many customers stopped shopping and rushed to watch. Many photographers also seize the favorable terrain and aim their cameras at painted models painted with colorful colors. As soon as this popular southern body art appeared in Shencheng, it had a great shock wave to people's ideas. In fact, this figure show has been staged in almost all large and medium-sized cities in China in the past year. )
"For a period of time, in rural market towns, material exchange meetings and temple fairs in urban-rural fringe areas, there have been occasional situations in which greenhouse performance groups have hosted, accepted and organized striptease performances, and they have become increasingly fierce. Some song and dance entertainment venues, theaters and other performance venues also openly organize young women to perform pornographic performances. The Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Public Security successively investigated and dealt with four cases of indecent striptease pornographic performances in Huairen County, Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, Xiahuayuan District, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, Xuanhua County and Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, and arrested organizers and participants 2 1 1 person on the spot. " This is a report of China Youth Daily. It is not difficult to see from the article that striptease has spread to many places in China, especially some remote towns and villages. ...
It seems that China is experiencing a new round of "body art" shock wave!
China's craze for body photography, which started last year, is the first round of shock wave in China's art world in the new era. I don't know. Anyway, in my impression, body photography has become "fashionable" in a few years, and it seems that it always comes and goes 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 there is no origin and low tide is because we don't seem to find this law, and it is not terrible not to find it. The terrible thing is that our theoretical circle and critical circle are so good at any art that any scientific knowledge can't be obtained without research. "(democritus) We should treat the craze of human body photography in China with an attitude of observation and research.
Apart from the political climate and the inconvenience of "having China characteristics", 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 fun of a work of art and the fun 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 better? " (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 the famous saying "man! 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" heart "in 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: History of Western Literature Psychology, Shaanxi People's Publishing House, 1999, page 4] Surprisingly, in this exhibition, there are also several works of beautiful goddesses with wings flying like butterflies. 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 difference; 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 an "exotic product", I dare not say that we are not used to foreign countries, nor dare I say that "photography" has existed 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 entrust yourself to you by any means, and you will do your best to make a gesture. "
"Both performance art and body art are imported. When those inexplicable performance arts are still in the limelight, body art has appeared in black and pink, 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 aesthetic feeling, Allen? Edgar Allan Poe: According to 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 China people look at human body photography is wrong, and what they said at the human body film festival is also wrong. Most of the comments on human photography are serious "look around"!
This is easily reminiscent of the fact that even words such as "teeth", "sigh" and "chest" describing human body parts and physiological phenomena are considered vulgar and cannot be used, so other euphemistic metaphors should be used instead. 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/kloc-The Dead Soul written by Russian writer Nikolai Nikolai Gogol in the 9th century, the wives and concubines from other provinces are described as arty, and they don't have to swear words, such as "use my handkerchief" when wiping their noses, which vividly depicts the scene that Russian nobles blindly worship French classicism, 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 an unchanging pursuit, which is a goal that is 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 problem of "love affair", but has risen to the height of improving the quality of life, purifying human nature and promoting the process of civilization.
I heard that Playboy is not a pornographic publication in the mainstream western society. 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. We can't add a "fig leaf" to it just because we want to accommodate our own "national conditions", and we can't deceive the world and steal the name before we understand the connotation of human body art. Although human body photography is really a stopwatch that is difficult to grasp, no matter how many 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 on the temple of Apollo at Delphi in ancient Greece is "self-knowledge, temperance." China's ancient culture also has "the heart of the Tao is weak, and the spirit of God teaches" [Wen Xin Diao Long? The original road]. In this respect, 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 philosophy of "moderation". 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 self of thought controls the self of imagination, the artist may not realize this, because he only realizes that he is imagining, not thinking; He knows that something different from imagination is controlling his imagination, but he doesn't know that it is 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, "I am dizzy by myself, how can I make people clear?" 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 own sorrow through the sacrifice of others". At this point, I realized the true meaning of this sentence. I am Tang Jiali incident ",I talked about my long-term thinking about China's body art .. That's a bit wrong. Stop it!
How to appreciate human body art
At present, the image of human body art is flooding all kinds of media in various forms. There are a lot of human images in works of art, newspapers and magazines, film and television advertisements, online pictures, performance art and body painting. It is really varied and dazzling, which directly affects people's cultural life and ideology, and has a more obvious impact on the aesthetic comprehension and learning of young students in the process of growth and development. Many people think that the human body is beautiful, but some people dare not face up to the existence of human body art and associate the human body with evil, obscenity and sex. So, how should we appreciate body art?
First, we must first make it clear that the human body is beautiful, not evil.
As early as the ancient Greeks believed that the human body should be something to be proud of and should be kept in a perfect state. Goethe, the great German poet, said, "The last ever-rising creation of nature is a beautiful person." Some people also say, "The most beautiful clothes for human beings are their own skin." Because the human body is created to adapt to the evolution of nature, it is a perfect, balanced and harmonious whole composed of reasonable and scientific bones, muscles, skin and various organs. Body art conveys the artist's emotion with the human body as the carrier, and the artist endows the human body with thousands of colors and postures through artistic creation.
It is also normal to use mannequins reasonably in artistic activities, because the human body is beautiful and normal, and the so-called' evil' is the result of traditional ideas and artificial misleading hints. "
Second, body art is noble and sacred, not obscene.
People love body art because artists worship life, praise nature, praise youth, eulogize love and pursue freedom with body language. This kind of creative expression is the internal motive force to produce excellent works of human art, and will not lead people into the wrong path of fantasy and evil thoughts. For example, Michelangelo's David touched people with the power of masculine beauty, while Rodin's sculpture with the theme of sex made people feel the beauty and vitality of youth, and determined the relationship between art and things, appreciation and desire. Body art is engraved with aesthetic tastes, thoughts and feelings and ever-changing social thoughts of different times and different authors. The ancient Greek human body showed simplicity, solemnity and sacredness. The human body and sculptures in the Renaissance reflect the restlessness of the human body and are fine. Impressionist human body is real and gorgeous; American-style human body has a sense of humor; Japanese-style human body is soft and moving. Man's understanding of himself is gradually deepened and sublimated with the progress of civilization of the times. Artists in the past dynasties have been exploring in the field of human body art, adding a lot of colorful human body art works to the world art treasure house. For example, the statue of Venus, the fountain of angels and Rodin's The Thinker are all well-known masterpieces.
Due to historical and cultural reasons, China and Japanese have never regarded nudity itself as a serious object of thinking. This situation has caused some misunderstandings, leading us to face the fear and confusion of human body art, which is sacred and noble, and is essentially different from obscenity.
Third, learn to appreciate the beauty of the human body with artistic eyes and learn to distinguish fake art.
Winkelmann asserted that the highest beauty should be to get rid of all flavors and be as perfect as pure water. Art is sacred, a summary and high-level representation of life, and a sublimation of life. She often gives people inspiration, imagination, thinking and aesthetics ... that's why people appreciate and accept the influence of art, thus enriching their spiritual life and absorbing the nutrients of art.
Undeniably, many people pursue commercial interests, fame and other ulterior motives under the guise of body art, ignoring the laws of art, doing something unconventional and pursuing sensational effects, and some even regard showing ugliness, pornography and death as fashion. This act of trampling on artistic laws is not a praise of beauty, but an all-round subversion of traditional artistic concepts and artistic noumenon.
As a normal person, we will undoubtedly scoff at such "body art". Because, compared with normal art, what they lack most is creation, without the aura of art, only nonsense and absurdity. Apart from giving others curiosity and satisfying some people's low tastes, it has nothing to do with art. It is not difficult to find that these "artists" have completely divorced from or even divorced from their normal lives. They don't draw creative sources from people's lives, but "do whatever they want" in the name of art. They not only lose the foundation of artistic creation, but even some basic moral norms of human beings, reflecting a kind of hysteria and even madness and metamorphosis.
Human behavior or artistic behavior should still tend to the truth, goodness and beauty of humanitarianism and the healthy sunshine of human nature. The weird pursuit that only psychopathy and abnormal behavior can reproduce the depth of human nature is the future development direction of new aesthetics and new art, and it is a kind of modern obscurantism.
Thank God for all the beautiful things in the world, and thank God for giving mankind double gifts, such as the human body shape of poetry and the ability to feel the tentacles of all beautiful souls. Although the first gift is not rich, everyone has the right to be in a good mood! Please appreciate the beauty of human body with artistic eyes.
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