{"id":798,"date":"2023-12-11T15:51:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T20:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/?p=798"},"modified":"2023-12-22T12:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T17:24:59","slug":"class-11-tattooing-and-the-contemporary-art-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/2023\/12\/11\/class-11-tattooing-and-the-contemporary-art-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Class 11: Tattooing and the Contemporary Art World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mifflin&#8217;s &#8220;Ink Side Out&#8221; is an interesting profile about tattoo art in mainstream culture. She identifies an overlap between tattoo imagery and fine art, and describes the techniques that are used by several artists to break away from the narrow visual language of traditional tattooing. Her article is really an exploration of creativity and eccentricity that helps bridge the gap between fine art and tattooing, which is an important effort that elevates how tattoos are viewed and received. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did my presentation on Ruth Marten, whose work I really enjoyed. She builds her tattoos around a playful and Surrealist sense of humor that she says will keep the field from stagnating. She clearly favors reforming and revitalizing tradition as an artistic practice, and has altered an abundant amount of prints and lithographs from the 19th century. Inserting animals, colors, or abstract shapes, she takes old portraits and turns them into a scene of carefully constructed absurdity. I think she definitely took a similar approach to tattooing, and tried to disrupt the traditional practices of tattoo. At the time while she was working as a tattooist, there were a lot of subversive movements (both artistically and culturally) which made room for her as an artist, and its clear to see where she got some of her inspiration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mifflin&#8217;s &#8220;Ink Side Out&#8221; is an interesting profile about tattoo art in mainstream culture. She identifies an overlap between tattoo imagery and fine art, and describes the techniques that are used by several artists to break away from the narrow visual language of traditional tattooing. Her article is really an exploration of creativity and eccentricity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}