Remembering Jiangnan: Body Art Photography

Author: Zhang Jianming
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: "Jiangnan is beautiful, its scenery is familiar from the past. The sunrise over the river flowers is redder than fire, and the river water turns green like the blue sky when spring comes. Can one not recall Jiangnan?" Throughout history, 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 the art of the human body. 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, more translucent, more luminous, and more lifelike than the skin color of the human body. The human body is beautiful, and the art of the human body is the crystallization of its beauty. Since the primitive civilization, humans have depicted their own bodies. From the naked flying apsaras in the Dunhuang murals of the Wei and Jin and Tang dynasties to the "Venus de Milo" of Greece, 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 to express, create, and praise human beauty in film, photography, ballet, gymnastics, swimming, ice skating, and other arts and sports. It not only brings people artistic enjoyment but also cultivates their aesthetic taste and artistic interest. Although Chinese human body art started relatively late, its development has been rapid, and there are now more and more excellent human body sketches and human body photography works. Once the thousands of years of feudal shackles are completely broken, people will completely break away from outdated traditional concepts.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 body art will continue to radiate even more brilliant light!