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Depictions of nudity refers to nudity in all the artistic disciplines including vernacular and historical depictions. Nudity in art has generally conformed — with some variation — to social standards for public nudity; in cultures where nudity was accepted, nude figures in painting and sculpture were as well. Image File history File linksMetadata CFportal. ...
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 Nudity was acceptable to the 19th-century French Salon-going public, only as long as the setting was clearly "classical", depicting characters in a culture where nudity was commonplace, as in this painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme ( 1847) However, some cultures have tolerated artistic nudity more than actual nudity, with a different set of standards of what is acceptable. Sometimes live nudity is more acceptable if the model does not move; see Windmill Theatre. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1577x1000, 281 KB) Summary Un Combat de Coqs by Jean-Léon Gérôme, scanned from pre-WWI book by User:Lee M Notes: I believe this a higher-resolution version than has previously been available on the web, and...
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A salon is a gathering of stimulating people of quality under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings, often consciously following Horaces definition of the aims of poetry, to...
Pollice Verso by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872, is the immediate source of the thumbs down gesture in popular culture. ...
1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
The Windmill Theatre, later the Windmill Club, was a famous West End theatre in Great Windmill Street, London. ...
General depictions
' Students painting "from the live" at the École. Photographed late 1800s. As social attitudes about artistic nudity have changed, this has sometimes led to conflict over art that no longer conforms to prevailing standards. For example, some members of the Roman Catholic Church once organized the so-called "fig-leaf campaign" to cover nudity in art, starting from the works of Renaissance artist Michelangelo, but the Church has since removed such fig leaves and restored the works.[citation needed] Image File history File links École_des_beaux-arts_(from_the_live). ...
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As a Christian ecclesiastical term, Catholic - from the Greek adjective , meaning general or universal[1] - is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as follows: ~Church, (originally) whole body of Christians; ~, belonging to or in accord with (a) this, (b) the church before separation into Greek or Eastern and Latin or...
Eugen Sandow as the Dying Gaul A fig leaf is the covering up of an act or an object that is embarrassing or disagreeable. ...
Raphael was famous for depicting illustrious figures of the Classical past with the features of his Renaissance contemporaries. ...
Michelangelo (full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) (March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564) was a Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet. ...
The nude has become an enduring genre of representational art, especially painting, sculpture and photography. It depicts people without clothes, usually with stylistic and staging conventions that distinguish the artistic elements (such as innocence, or similar theatrical/artistic elements) of being nude with the more provocative state of being naked. A nude figure is one, such as a goddess or a man in ancient Greece, for whom the lack of clothing is its usual condition, so that there is no sexual suggestiveness presumed. A naked figure is one, such as a contemporary prostitute or a businessman, who usually wears clothing, such that their lack of it in this scene implies sexual activity or suggestiveness. The latter were rare in European art from the Medieval period until the latter half of the 1800s; in the interim, a work featuring an unclothed woman would routinely identify her as "Venus" or another Greco-Roman goddess, to justify her nudity. Look up genre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
It is generally agreed that people know and understand the world and reality through the act of naming it; thus, through language and representations (Oxford English Dictionary, cited in Vukcevich 2002). ...
For building painting, see painter and decorator. ...
A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this article is man-made and selected for special recognition as art. ...
Photography is the process of making pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a sensor or film. ...
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Marble Venus of the Capitoline Venus type, Roman (British Museum) Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love and beauty, the rough equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. ...
Even though tastes changed significantly, sume nude themes kept their attraction, even leading to copying of scenes from many centuries before.
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 ...and a bronze smaller reproduction in Munich of the Roman marble Nudity in art, also publicly displayed, is rather common and more accepted than public nudity of real people. For example, a statue or painting representing a nude person may be displayed in public places where actual nudity is not allowed. However, there is also much art depicting a nude person with a piece of cloth seemingly by chance covering the genitals. Image File history File links UffiziFlorenceWrestlers. ...
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For building painting, see painter and decorator. ...
One definition of public space or a public place is a place where anyone has a right to come without paying an entrance or other fee. ...
 Some feel the selected focus of "Nude studies" such as this lends to an impersonal, objectifying depiction of the human body; others say it can be as selectively depicted as a landscape. A 1960s comedy sketch featuring English comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore admiring Cézanne's Les grandes baigneuses in the National Gallery humorously suggested that there must be hundreds of paintings that are not publicly displayed because the pieces of cloth did not fall in just the right places while the artist was painting them. Download high resolution version (1200x1826, 435 KB)This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ...
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Objectification refers to the way in which one person treats another person as an object and not as a human being. ...
Human body is entire physical structure of an organism of human being. ...
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Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian. ...
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (April 19, 1935 – March 27, 2002), was an Academy-Award nominated British comedian, actor and musician. ...
Paul Cézanne (IPA: , January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. ...
The National Gallery from Trafalgar Square The National Gallery is an art gallery in London, located on the north side of Trafalgar Square. ...
In modern media, images of partial and full nudity are used in advertising to draw additional attention. In the case of attractive models this attention is due to the visual pleasure the images provide; in other cases it is due to the relative rarity of images of nudity. The use of nudity in advertising tends to be carefully controlled to avoid the impression that the company whose product is being advertised is indecent or unrefined. There are also limits on what advertising media such as magazines allow. The success of sexually provocative advertising is claimed in the truism "sex sells". However, responses to nudity in American advertisements have been more mixed; nudity in the advertisements of Calvin Klein, Benetton, and Abercrombie & Fitch, to name three companies, have provoked much negative as well as positive response. (See also: Sex in advertising). Commercialism redirects here. ...
Photograph of the once famous model Dovima A model is a person who poses or displays for purposes of art, fashion, or other products and advertising. ...
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Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is a well-known American fashion designer. ...
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The Abercrombie moose. ...
Sex in advertising is the use of sexual attraction as a tool of persuasion to draw interest to a particular product, for purpose of sale, generally using attractive models. ...
Of images of nudity (not necessarily pornographic), the most extreme form is full frontal nudity, referring to the fact that the actor or model is presented from the front and with the genitals exposed. Frequently images of nude people do not go that far and photos are deliberately composed, and films edited, such that in particular no genitalia are seen, as if the camera failed to see them by chance. This is sometimes called "implied nudity" as opposed to "explicit nudity." Pornographic movies Pornography (Porn) (from Greek πόÏνη (porne) prostitute and γÏαφή (grafe) writing), more informally referred to as porn or porno, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ...
Full frontal nudity shows the genitals, as opposed to only showing toplessness or bare buttocks. ...
A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definition) which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in an complex organism; namely: Male: penis (notably the glans penis...
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 | Goya's La Maja Desnuda and La Maja Vestida. In 19th-century Europe, it was common to have two paintings of the same subject for the same place on the wall.
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Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 400 pixel Image in higher resolution (1600 × 800 pixel, file size: 115 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) +/- La Maja Vestida (The Clothed Maja) painted by Francisco Goya, located in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. ...
This article is about Francisco Goya, a Spanish painter. ...
La Maja Desnuda (The Nude Maja) is a oil painting on canvas by the master Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya, that portrays a nude woman reclining on a bed of pillows. ...
La maja vestida Painting by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya in 1800-1805 which nowadays is exhibited at the Prado Museum in Madrid. ...
Film and television See also: nudity in film, nudity in American television and nudity in music videos. Publicity photograph of Audrey Munson from The American Film Company c1916. ...
Nudity on American network television has traditionally been a charged topic. ...
The portrayal of nudity in music videos has always been controversial. ...
The portrayal of nudity in motion pictures and television has long been controversial. Full nudity has gained much wider acceptance in European cinema and television, where in contrast to their US counterparts the audience perceive nudity and sexuality in general as less objectionable than the depiction of violence. Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...
European cinema is the cinema of Europe. ...
Broadcast television and most "basic cable" outlets in the United States have been more reluctant to display nudity in most cases, the exception being PBS. A few series in the 1990s, including NYPD Blue, have occasionally used partial nudity, both male and female. When broadcast on television, theatrically released films featuring nudity are usually presented with the nude scenes edited out, or the nudity is obscured in some fashion (for example digital imagery may be used to clothe nude actors). Several premium cable services such as HBO, Showtime, and more recently FX, have gained popularity for, among other things, presenting unedited films. In addition, they have produced series that do not shy away from nude scenes, including Oz, Sex and the City, The Sopranos and Queer as Folk (the British original was pioneering even in the more tolerant U.K.). Basic Cable is the sketch comedy show on Boston College Campus. ...
Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ...
NYPD Blue was a long-running American television police drama set in New York City. ...
The seawater creature in The Abyss marked CGIs acceptance in the visual effects industry. ...
Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ...
HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network with headquarters in New York City. ...
Showtime is a subscription television brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States. ...
FX (shorter for Fox Extended Networks) is the name of a number of related subscription TV channels owned by News Corporations Fox Entertainment Group. ...
Oz is the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by HBO. The show, which aired for six seasons (1997-2003), was created by Tom Fontana and produced by Barry Levinson. ...
Sex and the City was a popular American cable television program based on the novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell. ...
This article is about the TV series. ...
Queer as Folk was an American/Canadian television series co-production, produced by Showtime and Temple Street Productions, which was based on the British series of the same name created by Russell T. Davies. ...
Other depictions in vernacular culture Nudity is occasionally presented in other media as well, often with attending controversy. Album cover art featuring nude photographs, featuring music by performers such as Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Blind Faith and Jane's Addiction, have stirred controversy over the years. Several rock musicians have performed nude on stage, including members of Jane's Addiction, Rage Against the Machine, Green Day, The Jesus Lizard, Red Hot Chili Peppers, blink-182 and The Bravery. Image File history File links 0362ManteNude. ...
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Stereoscopy, stereoscopic imaging or 3-D (three-dimensional) imaging is a technique to create the illusion of depth in a photograph, movie, or other two-dimensional image, by presenting a slightly different image to each eye. ...
A sepia-toned photograph taken in England in 1895 U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945 Peter Leibings photograph of Conrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire into West Berlin on August 15, 1961 Buzz Aldrin salutes the US flag on the surface of the...
This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. ...
This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ...
Yoko Ono Lennon (born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese musician and artist best known as the widow of John Lennon of The Beatles. ...
For other uses, see Blind Faith (disambiguation). ...
Janes Addiction was an American rock band featuring of Perry Farrell (vocalist), Dave Navarro (guitarist), Eric Avery (bassist}, and Stephen Perkins (percussionist). ...
Janes Addiction was an American rock band featuring of Perry Farrell (vocalist), Dave Navarro (guitarist), Eric Avery (bassist}, and Stephen Perkins (percussionist). ...
Rage Against the Machine is a Grammy Award-winning American rock band, noted for their blend of hip hop, hard rock, punk and funk as well as their vocal revolutionary socialist beliefs. ...
Green Day is an American rock band band comprising three core members: Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, lead vocals), Mike Dirnt (bass, backing vocals) and Tré Cool (drums). ...
The Jesus Lizard was a rock music group formed in 1989 in Chicago, Illinois. ...
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a multiple Grammy Award-winning[1] American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983 by Anthony Kiedis (vocals) Hillel Slovak (guitar), Michael Flea Balzary (bass), and Jack Irons (drummer). ...
The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...
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Television soap operas have rarely shown any risqué nudity, the exception being the Procter & Gamble soap operas As the World Turns and Guiding Light which in 2005 went as far as featuring rear male nudity during lovemaking scenes. After the Janet Jackson Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy in February 2004, U.S. Federal Communications Commission commissioner Michael J. Copps stated that it was time for a crackdown on daytime television and indicated that he was reviewing whether soap operas were violating the agency's indecency prohibitions. Following this news, Guiding Light edited out nudity from an episode that had already been taped. A week later, the show's executive producer John Conboy was fired and replaced by Ellen Wheeler. All nine American network soaps began to impose an unwritten rule of avoiding any sort of risqué adult scenes. Procter & Gamble Co. ...
For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ...
As the World Turns (ATWT) is the second longest-running American television soap opera (the first being Guiding Light), airing each weekday on CBS. It debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30pm. ...
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Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1957) is a Grammy Award-winning, Golden Globe, and Academy Award-nominated American singer, dancer, and actress. ...
Super Bowl XXXVIII, which aired live on February 1, 2004 in Houston, Texas, was noted for a controversial halftime show in which Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake were performing a medley/duet of their songs Rhythm Nation/Rock Your Body, which featured many suggestive dance moves by both Timberlake and...
The FCCs official seal. ...
Daytime television is the general term for television shows produced that are intended to air during the daytime hours. ...
John Conboy is an American soap opera producer. ...
Ellen Wheeler, after her 1986 Emmy win for her roles on Another World. ...
On the Internet, especially on websites featuring images of well known people, the terms nude and nudity have often been used (some would say misused) to signify indecent exposure; for example, a photo of an otherwise fully clothed woman with a nipple exposed. See also: Nude celebrities on the Internet. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Along with almost every other communication technology ever invented, the Internet has been popular for transmission of pornography. ...
An exception is often made for the depiction of peoples whose nudity is acceptable within the mores of a traditional culture. This so-called "ethnographic" nudity has appeared in National Geographic magazine, as well as documentaries broadcast in the United States. In some cases, media outlets may show nudity which occurs in a "natural" or spontaneous setting in news programs or documentaries, while blurring out or censoring the nudity in a dramatic work. The National Geographic Society was founded in the USA on January 27, 1888, by 33 men interested in organizing a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge. ...
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Henry Scott Tuke, "Swimming" Whether depiction of child nudity is considered inappropriate varies, see also above. Image File history File links Tuke,_Henry_Scott_(1858–1929),_"The_Bathers".jpg‎ Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929), The bathers. File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Boy Henry Scott Tuke User:Markaci/Nudity Historical pederastic couples Nudity...
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Henry Scott Tuke Henry Scott Tuke (12 June 1858–13 March 1929), British painter, is best remembered for his paintings of naked boys, which have earned him the status of a pioneer of gay male culture. ...
Around the time of the Italian Renaissance, nude young boys featured in many paintings, especially those with a Christian theme. Raphael, for example, made paintings of nude cherubs, also known as putto. Other famous examples are Amor Vincit Omnia by Caravaggio and various portraits of Jesus as a baby. Centuries later, many painters created images of nude children that carried no religious significance. For instance, Henry Scott Tuke painted nude adolescent boys doing everyday activities; his images were not overtly erotic, nor did they usually show their genitals. The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 14th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe. ...
Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. ...
Raphael or Raffaello (April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520) was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings. ...
CHERUB is a series of childrens books by Robert Muchamore about a group of children who attend the CHERUB campus to be trained as secret agents. ...
sculpted putto The putto is a figure of a pudgy baby, almost always male, often naked and having wings, found especially in Italian Renaissance art. ...
Amor Vincit Omnia (meaning Love Conquers All, known in English by a variety of names including Amor Victorious, Victorious Cupid, Love Triumphant, Love Victorious, or Earthly Love) is a painting by the Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), currently in the Gemäldegalerie (Berlin). ...
Chalk portrait of Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, c. ...
This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ...
Henry Scott Tuke Henry Scott Tuke (12 June 1858–13 March 1929), British painter, is best remembered for his paintings of naked boys, which have earned him the status of a pioneer of gay male culture. ...
Professional photographers such as Jock Sturges, Sally Mann, David Hamilton, Jacques Bourboulon and Garo Aida have made photographs of nude children and adolescents for publication in books and magazines and for public exhibition in art galleries. According to one school of thought, photographs such as these are acceptable and should be (or remain) legal since they represent the unclothed form of the children in an artistic manner, the children were not sexually abused, and the photographers obtained written permission from the parents or guardians. Opponents suggest that such works should be (or remain) banned and represent a form of child pornography involving subjects who may have experienced psychological harm during or after their creation. Jock Sturges (born 1947) is an American photographer, most widely-known for his photography on nudist beaches in California, Spain, and France. ...
Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer. ...
David Hamilton (born April 15, 1933) is a photographer from Britain. ...
Photographier le nu - 1996 Jacques Bourboulon Jacques Bourboulon (born December 8, 1946) is a French photographer, specialized in nude photography of very young girls. ...
Garo Aida (born November 4, 1949) is a Japanese photographer known widely for his erotic work. ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ...
Child pornography refers to pornography depicting minors. ...
Mainstream films, too, have frequently contained nude or topless minors. Major examples include American Beauty with 16-year-old Thora Birch; Valerie a týden divu with 13-year-old Jaroslava Schallerová; and Walkabout with 15-year-old David Gulpilil, and 16-year-old Jenny Agutter, and preteen Luc Roeg. Pretty Baby and Child Bride became controversial for portraying nude preteen actresses. American Beauty is a 1999 drama film that explores themes of love, freedom, self-liberation, the search for happiness, and family against the backdrop of modern American suburbia. ...
Thora Birch (born March 11, 1982) is an American actress. ...
Valerie a týden divů (in Eng. ...
Jaroslava Schallerová in Láska (1973) Jaroslava Schallerová (April 25, 1956— ) (sometimes credited as Jarka Shallerová) was a popular Czech and Hungarian film star during the 70s. ...
Walkabout is a 1971 British film set in Australia. ...
David Gulpilil (Gurlpiril is linguistically correct though he is sometimes credited as David Gumpilil) (b. ...
Jenny Agutter from the film Logans Run. ...
Pretty Baby is a 1978 historical fiction dramatic film directed by Louis Malle. ...
Child Bride is a 1938 film directed by Harry Revier. ...
The provocative photo of a nude prepubescent girl on the original cover of the Virgin Killer album by the Scorpions also brought controversy. By contrast, most would consider the naked male baby shown on the cover of the Nevermind album by Nirvana to have no sexual connotation. Virgin Killer is an album by the German band The Scorpions, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music). ...
Scorpions are a hard rock/heavy metal band from Hannover, Germany, best known for their 80s rock anthem, Rock You Like a Hurricane and their singles Wind of Change, No One Like You, and Still Loving You. // Rudolf Schenker, the bands rhythm guitarist, set out to find a band...
Nevermind is the seminal second studio album from the American rock band Nirvana. ...
Nirvana was an American rock band originating from Aberdeen, Washington. ...
There have been incidents in which snapshots taken by parents of their infant or toddler children bathing or otherwise naked were destroyed or turned over to law enforcement as child pornography. In New Zealand photographs of naked minors in newspapers and magazines were once socially acceptable, but would invoke horror and revulsion amongst the readership if published today. Child pornography refers to pornography depicting minors. ...
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Naked skin as canvas
 A man’s back, tattooed as if it were a canvas A special case, where nudity, though not permanent, is physically necessary for the art to be created and observed, is body art which uses the skin as the medium (like a painter’s canvas) upon which the markings are created. While the techniques used, such as tattooing and scarification, are often used in a more artisanal way, as most body markings have less of an æsthetic than a social and/or communicative purpose (e.g. initiation rite, fun, macho or sexy signal, various traditions), some clients carefully select artists and designs for artistic beauty to decorate significant skin surfaces, preferably coördinating the different designs — some like displaying them in public, others rather keep them hidden except in select company, accordingly preferring to mark body parts that are commonly clad. A few artists use live animals as (obviously involuntary) canvas. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1425x2009, 1426 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tattoo Talk:Tattoo Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Ideas Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/New Userboxes Nudity in art User:LancerSTFU Metadata...
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Complex Kadakali makeup is a form of body art Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. ...
This article is about the tattoo, a design in ink or some other pigment, usually decorative or symbolic, placed permanently under the skin. ...
Scarification is a permanent body modification that uses scar tissue produced by the body to form designs, pictures, or words in the skin. ...
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