Tattoo
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"After the show I spotted a young woman who had a tattoo of a poem by Rupert Brooke entitled The Hill across her back and from there I wandered to an other area of the building and ended in the 15th and 16th century art sections of the museum."--JWG "Although tattoo art has existed at least since the first known tattooed person, Ötzi, lived around the year 3330 BC, the way society perceives tattoos has varied immensely throughout history. In the 20th century, tattoo art throughout most of the world was associated with a limited selection of specific "rugged" lifestyles, notably sailors and prisoners."--Sholem Stein |
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A tattoo is a form of body modification, made by inserting ink, dyes and pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment.
Taken from the Tahitian word tatu or tatau, and incorporating Japanese traditional irezumi ("insertion of ink") methods, tattooing became very popular among sailors, and then caught on with bikers and others who like to have permanent artwork on their skin. Today "made freaks" are often associated with having excessive tatooing all over the body, as in the case of The Enigma.
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