Tribal body paint markings
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Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival is a month-long festival in Tacloban, Leyte which feature people painting their bodies like the Pintados before That day, these painted people or “Pintados” – as called by conquistadors – cemented their mark in the diverse history of Philippines. The first Spaniards to arrive in the Philippines, however, saw them quite differently when they were ultimately defeated by fierce, noble warriors from the Visayas, covered in complex tattoo designs all over their body. When tattoos came to mind, before the modern tattooing trend, we would often picture criminals, bikers and rebels. “Prince Giolo” a tattooed tribal man was purchased as a slave in Mindanao and became part of public exhibition in England making him “living” artwork. Though it is highly criticized by many conservative minds as a way of disrespecting and defiling one’s own body, perhaps there is something more to this form of art, beyond the fact that it requires blood and endurance before someone might fully appreciate the beauty that lies under the works of needle and ink. Known for their innate resourcefulness, our forefathers used their own bodies as a “living canvass” to express themselves by means of the painful, yet intricate, art of tattooing. Without the great master pieces from erudite men and women of the past – that combined both their imagination and a seed of truth interwoven in every poetic lines, vivid prose and brush strokes – modern society might fail to to have an interest in understanding how their ancestors made sense of their world and how those beliefs and values are carried forward today.īut art is not limited to paint brushes and pens. Culture and history owes a lot of things to arts.