It is very customary in conventions and meetings, but always in an environment where the main topic are the tattoos and body modifications, the curious thing about the news they do so in a museum "conventional" with art " conventional ".
Art Museum in Baltimore, USA, hosted a ceremony intended to worship the practice of tattooing. On occasion there were speeches, parades and discussions dealt with the historical and cultural significance of this technique.
key moments of the event were displays Waithe and Jan Bishop Lucas. The first exposed to Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus, who tattooed on his calves. Bishop, meanwhile, showed the 31 species of cat that has drawn on his arm.
In the debates, even the most renowned tattoo artists to agree. "It is an art form. It is a practice," said Lyle Tuttle, a San Francisco artist who began drawing in 1949 and tattooed Janis Joplin and Cher. For its part, Jacci Gresham, the first widely known black female tattoo artist, said that "the tattoo is a very permanent art form."
The word "tattoo" comes from the Samoan word "tatau" which means mark or strike twice (referring to the traditional method of applying the designs or templates). The practice of this discipline emerged in the Euro-Asia from the Neolithic times. Have even been found tattooed mummies are 7,000 years old.
Source: Universia
