Jan 9, 2010

LIVING WITH ART




Anthropologists claim that the history of tattoos may date back to many centuries back. Certainly, we know that many of the ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, used tattooing techniques.
Towards the end of the 1800s criminals in America and even normal citizens were tattooed with a code for identification purposes.
Now tattooing has become a status symbol, and to some people it’s a show off. The other funny thing is some use the tattoo in private parts and the others use in body places which are open. As tattoo designs and safety techniques improved, and several prominent celebrities began to sport tattoos, they became desirable once again.
The Greeks and Romans used tattoos for a different purpose – to show criminal or slave status! This is a concept that we could call the ‘dark side’ of tattoo history – the fact that body tattooing has been used, in certain times in history, to indicate an inferior status. This is relatively unusual and in most cultures, tattoo art is a symbol of status or accomplishment.
Tattooing some years back was in disreputable until it made a dramatic comeback a few years back. Now the young generation is behind tattooing, it may be good, but I don’t understand the freedom some people implementing this art in faces, I not sure to comment this can be cleared or changed when one don’t likes this. In our cultural ethics I don’t know how a person will be treated in my society with a tattoo in face. I could like to comment this art as not ‘art of living’ but ‘living with art’

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