Tattoo art

Interesting facts, useful information about tattoo art in the past and today. Collection of photo examples of interesting tattoo drawings – 274 tattoo photos.

Tattoo art: facts and photos

Throughout the history of mankind, people deliberately left indelible drawings and inscriptions on their skin. The oldest specimens of skin drawings have been found by archaeologists on mummies in Egypt and Nubia, which are approximately 4,000 years old. Once upon a time, a tattoo served not only as an ornament, but also as a tribal sign, meant belonging to a clan, played the role of a totem, and was believed to have a certain magical power. At the heart of all this is the understanding that tattoos have a certain meaning..

If you adhere to the essence of the concept of art, then tattoos convey a message, demonstrate the imagination and technical capabilities of their author, and give pleasure..

Tattoos are of interest to primitive people. The bodies of the most worthy men of the tribe bore natural traces from hunting or fighting. From here they began to invent artificial signs as a symbol of courage and prestige. At the time, however, one could hardly talk about art, but this was proof of the natural penetration of tattoo into people’s lives..

However, not all tattoo has a positive meaning. In ancient Rome, for example, tattoos were used to represent criminals and slaves. In medieval China, tattooing was practiced as a legal punishment. The ancient Greeks used scarring on their skin as a way to send secret messages. Even healing power can be put into a tattoo – for example, in Ancient Egypt it was believed that drawing a small bird near the eye corrects vision.

Tattoos entered Europe in the 1860s. Thanks to the powerful impetus of youth culture, a new generation of tattoo artists emerged during this period. Their creative ambitions and daring experiments elevate tattooing to the level of art. Today tattooists call themselves artists even more. They point to two important prerequisites for the success of such a master – drawing and traveling. Experience with a brush on canvas is extremely important for professional work with machine, needles and paint on human skin. All of this speaks of the dedication and talent required by the profession of a tattoo artist in the full sense of the word. People trust their skin – like a canvas, and a tattoo artist is an artist who must embody an idea, thought, feeling in an image.

Some people get tattoos because they are trendy. They don’t really think about the symbolism or the place where it will be depicted. These people are one of the main reasons why tattoos are perceived as a commercial and “modern” art. The notoriety of tattoos is also linked to the images of criminals wearing tattoos that the average person sees on their TV screen. These people can hardly explain their tattoos in detail. Most often, crosses or skulls are depicted. Also popular are quotes from the Bible, inscriptions in Latin, Hebrew, Arabic or English, as well as all kinds of hieroglyphs, which most often contain either a religious meaning or an aggressive message. In this case, art is undoubtedly replaced by its commercial side..

Anything that goes beyond measure also ceases to be art. There are real fanatics who consider tattoos to be their vocation and work of a lifetime. History knows the names of people who covered their entire body with tattoos and took this way of designating their body as fanaticism, and not as art. (The champion in this regard is the most tattooed man in the world – the Scotsman Tom Lepard, who died in 2016. The entire surface of his skin was covered with a tattoo that repeats the ornaments of the skin of a leopard. The second place is taken by the Englishman Wilfred Hardy, who also died in 2016, who 96% of his body was tattooed – even his tongue, gums, and eyebrows.)

As in any area of ​​life, everything is individual and there is never a single point of view. Tattoos can be a repulsive image of aggression and vulgarity, and can also be a manifestation of beauty and taste. (If we adhere to the definition of art, we should know that it is a diverse human endeavor to create visual, auditory, or performing works of art expressing the imaginary and technical skills of the author, designed to appreciate their beauty and emotionality. Accusation.) In this sense, any creation is – whether on canvas or leather – when it is beautiful and full of meaning, it can be perceived as art, but we must not forget that the line between commerce, vulgarity and art is thin.

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Photos of interesting tattoo drawings from 04/04/2021 (274 photos)

The text of the article was prepared by: NEMKA1986-ETXT (Olga Shtelvag)