Remembering Jiangnan. Chinese: Body Art Photography

Author: Zhang Jianming
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: "Jiangnan is beautiful, its scenery is familiar. The sunrise flowers are redder than fire, and the spring river is greener than blue. Can one not recall Jiangnan?" Since ancient times, countless people have been attracted by the beauty of Jiangnan, and the pursuit of beauty has never ceased. Among all living creatures in the world, humans are the most perfect. If beauty has a standard, it is human art. The human body is beautiful because no line or contour is more vivid, soft, varied, and rhythmic than those of the human body; no volume or form is more balanced, powerful, elastic, and rhythmic than those of the human body; and no color is fresher, more nourishing, clearer, more luminous, and more lifelike than the skin color of the human body. The human body is beautiful, and human art is the crystallization of the beauty of the human body. Since the primitive civilization, humans have depicted their own bodies. From the Dunhuang murals, we can see numerous naked flying apsaras from the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, to the Greek "Venus de Milo," to Michelangelo's "David" and Rodin's "The Eternal Idol," countless artists have used the human body as an artistic language to praise and celebrate life. Today, due to the unique aesthetic value of human beauty, in addition to sculpture and painting, people have already used various languages in film, photography, ballet, gymnastics, swimming, ice skating, and other arts and sports to express, create, and praise human beauty. It not only brings people artistic enjoyment but also cultivates their aesthetic taste and artistic interest. Although Chinese human art started relatively late, its development has been rapid, and there are now more and more excellent humanistic works and human photography. Once the thousands of years of feudal shackles are completely broken, people will completely break away from outdated traditional concepts. We firmly believe that as long as humans pursue beauty and art expresses beauty, then human art will continue to radiate even more brilliant light!