Body painting  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
Revision as of 09:59, 30 June 2009
Jahsonic (Talk | contribs)

← Previous diff		 Current revision
Jahsonic (Talk | contribs)

Line 1: Line 1:
{{Template}} {{Template}}
-Filmmakers rely upon [[pretext]]s to project [[nudity in film|larger-than-life nakedness on the silver screen]]. Since the audience will not accept nudity for nudity’s sake, without at least the pretext that [[character]]s’ nakedness has, if not redeeming social value, narrative purpose, [[screenwriter]]s offer excuses (or “reasons”) as to why a [[nubile]] young [[woman]] happens to doff her clothes in this or that particular scene. These excuses are often lame, but the pretext, no matter how flimsy, is what moviegoers need to assuage their qualms about watching a barely-out-of-her-teens girl take it off.  
-Here are the excises for nudity that pretends, at least, to be non-gratuitous:+'''Body painting''', or sometimes '''bodypainting''', is a form of [[body art]], considered by some as the most ancient form of art. Unlike [[tattoo]] and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, painted onto the human [[skin]], and lasts for only several hours, or at most (in the case of [[Mehndi]] or "henna tattoo") a couple of weeks. Body painting that is limited to the [[face]] is known as '''face painting'''. Body painting is also referred to as (a form of) [[temporary tattoo]]s; large scale or full-body painting is more commonly referred to as body painting, while smaller or more detailed work is generally referred to as temporary tattoos.
- +
-* [[Advertisement]]s+
-* [[Bathing]] or showering+
-* [[Body painting]]+
-* [[Corpse]]+
-* Dressing (or undressing)+
-* Filming a [[nude scene]]+
-* [[Flashing]]+
-* [[Hazing]]+
-* [[Leech]]es or [[tick]]s+
-* [[Mannequin]]s or [[doll]]s+
-* [[Massage]]+
-* Medical examination+
-* [[Mermaid]] or other naturally naked half-human creature+
-* Modeling+
-* Mooning+
-* Nudism+
-* Protest+
-* [[Rape]]+
-* Religious rite (e. g., [[Wicca]])+
-* Restroom use+
-* [[Sex]]+
-* Skinny dipping+
-* Spanking+
-* Statues or other nude art+
-* [[Strip poker]]+
-* [[Strip search]]+
-* Sunbathing+
-* [[Topless]] [[beach]]+
-* [[Voyeurism]]+
- +
-== Notes from a deleted Wikipedia article ==+
-===1950’s===+
- +
-As the following summaries of nude scenes indicates, in the movies of the 1950s, the rationales for movie sex and nudity included.+
- +
-* servicing the opposite sex as a gigolo or a prostitute+
-* being a harem girl+
-* documenting the nudist lifestyle+
-* sunbathing in the nude+
-* engaging in incest+
-* seeking sexual variety through hedonism+
-* acting as a sexual predator or seductress+
- +
-The summaries of these movies are based on those at The Greatest Films’ “Sex in Cinema: The Greatest and Most Influential Erotic / Sexual Films and Scenes” .+
- +
-''[[Sunset Boulevard]]'' (1950)+
- +
-A screenwriter (William Holden) with financial problems becomes a gigolo to a silent screen actress, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson).+
- +
-''[[Era Lui!... Si! Si!]]'' (1951)+
- +
-Sophia Loren appears as a topless harem girl; she also appeared topless in the ''[[Two Nights With Cleopatra]]'' (1954).+
- +
-''[[Garden of Eden]]'' (1954)+
- +
-This film has a single theme: a documentary of nudists enjoying the nudist lifestyle at a nudist club.+
- +
-''[[And God Created Woman]]'' (1956)+
- +
-Brigitte Bardot sunbathes, lying naked on her stomach in front of a hanging sheet.+
- +
-''[[Peyton Place]]'' (1957)+
- +
-New England townspeople indulge themselves in adultery, incestuous rape, frigidity, skinny dipping--and gossip; Lana Turner plays the neurotic, over-protective single mother of sexually-curious teenager Allison Mackenzie (Diane Varsi), and Hope Lange plays a teen who is raped by her stepfather (Arthur Kennedy). Based on the novel by Grace Metalious.+
- +
-''[[Sweet Smell of Success]]'' (1957)+
- +
-A gossip columnist, J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster), takes an obsessive, somewhat incestuous interest in his 19-year-old sister (Susan Harrison) who has a forbidden romance with a young singer, Steve Dallas (Martin Milner); there is also a homosexual connection between Hunsecker an Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis).+
- +
-''[[The Lovers]]'' (1958)+
- +
-This French film features adultery by a married woman and shows her bare breast) and simulated orgasm during oral sex. It was declared obscene, but the U. S. Supreme Court overturned the lower court’s decision.+
- +
-''[[The Immoral Mr. Teas]]'' (1959)+
- +
-This movie is about a delivery man, Bill Teas, who can imagine women unclothed in everyday situations.+
- +
-''[[Pillow Talk]]'' (1959)+
- +
-The main characters, played by Doris Day and Rock Hudson, shared a party telephone line and were constantly on the telephone as a split-screen implied that they were together and involved sexually when they really weren't.+
- +
-''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' (1959)+
- +
-Although Gore Vidal's original screenplay alluded to homosexuality, cannibalism, pedophilia, and incest, these elements were toned down; nevertheless, the movie featured Catherine’s (Elizabeth Taylor) luring of beach boys home for her homosexual cousin Sebastian’s enjoyment.+
- +
-===1960’s===+
- +
-As the following summaries of nude scenes indicates, in the movies of the 1960’s, such excuses for nudity in film included.+
- +
-* engaging in voyeurism+
{{GFDL}} {{GFDL}}

Current revision

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop

Featured:

Body painting, or sometimes bodypainting, is a form of body art, considered by some as the most ancient form of art. Unlike tattoo and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, painted onto the human skin, and lasts for only several hours, or at most (in the case of Mehndi or "henna tattoo") a couple of weeks. Body painting that is limited to the face is known as face painting. Body painting is also referred to as (a form of) temporary tattoos; large scale or full-body painting is more commonly referred to as body painting, while smaller or more detailed work is generally referred to as temporary tattoos.


Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Body painting" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Retrieved from "http://artandpopularculture.com/Body_painting"
Personal tools
Metas