Notice how these designs effect the appearance of the eyes, how the model’s identity seems to change from design to design. That is why…it makes play with anti-natural elements such as straight lines, triangles, circles and all rigid geometric figures which stand in conspicuous contrast with the mobility of facial features the organic curves of muscles.” In his analysis of the “underlying raison d’être” for all tribal body painting, Michel Thévoz in “The Painted Body” states: “the skin decoration is functionally designed to dehumanize, depersonalize,…to baffle identification. Human faces have no inherent hard lines or edges, so lines or strong geometric shapes immediately make the face “nonhuman” and ready to become “other”. The quickest way to alter a human face is to put a hard line on it. They illustrate what I see as the first step to painting a tribal face: divide the face into areas of color with bars, stripes or strong shapes like triangles. The next eight are basic patterns of the Southeast-Nuba of Sudan, Africa, from a set of analytical sketches in the book N uba Personal Art by James C. The first four are from Amazon examples depicted in the book Body Decoration by Karl Gröning. STEP 1 – Basic Tribal Facepainting TransformationĪbove are re-creations in black and white on one model of patterns you can find in traditional tribal facepainting.
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