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As we all know, painting and photography, as important forms of visual art, can restore the world as seen by the human eye to a certain extent, and then give the world more meaning and value.
However, just as there are technical differences between the two, painting, which is also a form of visual art, can be divided into many different types, such as oil painting, watercolor, pastel, etc., while photography can also be divided into landscape, portrait, documentary, and so on.
So, how do painting and photography together constitute visual arts, and how do they intersect?
And why is it that in the narrow sense of the visual arts, oil painting of the human body is given such a noble status, while body photography is considered such a low-level art form?
Today, let's explore these questions.
1. Visual arts.
The term visual arts has two interpretations: broad and narrow.
Visual art in a broad sense refers to the art created through vision, which includes not only painting and photography, but also sculpture, architecture, and other art created through visual means.
Visual arts, in the narrow sense, refer to the three forms mentioned in the broad visual arts, namely painting, photography, and sculpture.
Subdivided, painting can be divided into oil painting, watercolor, etc., while photography can be divided into landscape, portrait, etc., all of which are works of art that show the creator's visual art point of view through different forms and tools.
It can be seen that visual art can be understood as an art that is presented through visual means, which can be presented in the form of painting, photography and sculpture, and these three forms can reflect their own characteristics through different tools and creative methods.
Therefore, the scope of visual art is extraordinarily broad, including not only all kinds of art, but also the subdivided art forms embodied in various arts, and what kind of relationship and intersection are there in this?
2. Oil painting of the human body.
In the narrow sense of visual art, the oil painting of the human body is undoubtedly the most representative one, because it is not only a type of oil painting, but also a type of painting.
In the history of Western art, oil painting of the human body can be said to occupy a pivotal position, which not only has a profound impact on later paintings, but also has become a cultural and artistic symbol.
It can be said that oil painting of the human body can be said to be almost ubiquitous in the history of Western art, and since the ancient Greek period, the ancient Greeks have carried out profound research and worship of the beauty of the human body.
In the concept of the ancient Greeks, the human body was considered to be the greatest gift given to mankind by God, so the beauty of the human body can almost be seen in ancient Greek culture, and the human body oil painting, as a form of painting, was also deeply influenced by the ancient Greeks' worship of the beauty of the human body.
The reason why oil painting occupies such an important position in the narrow sense of visual art is that it is not only a creator's observation of the world, but also a unique artistic language.
Each oil painting of the human body is a work in which the creator creates through strokes and light and shadow, so as to convey his understanding and views on the beauty of the human body to the audience.
Therefore, body oil painting not only has rich cultural attributes, but also a unique artistic language, it is precisely because of such an important position that body oil painting is undoubtedly so noble, it will even be used to judge whether a painter is noble.
3. Body photography.
As a combination of painting and photography, body photography, like body oil painting, is also a unique artistic language.
However, compared with oil painting of the human body, body photography has a vague and low sense of identity in terms of public perception and cultural attributes.
So, how did body photography come about?
Why is it being challenged by the lack of acceptance?
Fourth, the reason for the existence of body photography.
As an ancient art form, human oil painting has a history of thousands of years, and in these thousands of years, human oil painting, as a form of painting, not only occupies a pivotal position in the history of Western art, but also has a far-reaching influence in the history of world art.
However, in comparison, the history of body photography is less than 200 years old.
As an emerging art form, body photography is also influenced by the beauty of the human body as the production of photography, but it is less than half of the time compared with body oil painting, so as an emerging art form, the time accumulation of body photography is naturally insufficient.
As a form of painting, the unique artistic language that human body oil painting can produce is unique, whether it is light and shadow, line and color, they are all outlined through the brush stroke by stroke, therefore, human body oil painting is not only an artistic language, but also a unique way of expression.
However, body photography, as a form of photography, is lacking in its unique artistic language.
Different from body oil painting, body photography is shot by a camera, that is, the light and shadow, color and lines it produces are all carried out by the camera, so body photography as a form of creation, its unique artistic language is not unique enough.
When influenced by the beauty of the human body, oil painting and body photography also produce very different images.
When oil paintings of the human body were influenced by the ancient Greeks' worship of the beauty of the human body, the picture they produced was undoubtedly noble.
However, when body photography is influenced by the beauty of the human body, the images they produce are controversial.
Since body photography was just taking shape, when it was influenced by the beauty of the human body, most of the images they produced were female, so this led to a gender imbalance in body photography, which not only generated some controversy, but also limited the expressiveness of body photography.
Therefore, it is precisely because body photography, as an emerging art form, has not existed for enough time, and at the same time, it lacks a unique artistic language compared with body oil painting, and even has the problem of gender imbalance, so body photography will be challenged by low recognition.
V. Conclusion
As an important form of visual art, body painting and body photography are both creators' observations of the world, a unique artistic language, but body photography, as an emerging art form, is challenged by low recognition, which is not a bad thing.
It is precisely because body photography, as an emerging art form, can not only absorb the essence of human oil painting, but also produce its own voice in the tide of human culture.
Therefore, with the progress of the times and the opening of concepts, body photography is expected to gradually gain more recognition and appreciation, but compared with body oil painting, it also needs to balance the relationship between artistic creation and social ethics, which not only requires the artist's own literacy, but also needs social norms and guidance.