In the journey of exploring art, there are always people who are willing to pay a huge price in pursuit of beauty that is different from the world, and even face the estrangement and disappointment of their families.
Tongali is such a brave and persistent artist. In 2002, she released her own body art photo album and published it in the mainland under her personal name, earning her the title of "the first person in body art".
However, such creations caused great controversy in society at that time, because people generally did not accept this avant-garde art form. Tongali not only suffered a lot of criticism, even her parents and family could not understand her choice, and the relationship with her family was tense for a while.
In order to pursue artistic creation, she even broke with her father and divorced, but she has no regrets, firmly believing that her choice can bring a deeper artistic experience to the audience. However, now that Tongari is nearly half a century old, is she remarried and what kind of life is she leading? Back in 1976, Tongali was born in Hefei, her father a serious veteran and her mother a virtuous housewife.
Due to the care of her parents, she showed a talent for dance from an early age. In order to cultivate her talents, her parents sent her to the Children's Palace to learn dance.
Surprisingly, her dancing talent was evident in the eyes of the teachers, and she quickly became a key target and was sent to the provincial gymnastics team for training.
With her dancing and gymnastics talents, Tongali rose to prominence on the gymnastics team, winning two gold medals at the Anhui Provincial Junior Women's Gymnastics Championships and being awarded the title of Outstanding Athlete.
However, Tongali's parents decided that being an athlete was too hard and decided to send her to the provincial art school to continue her dance studies. During her time at art school, Tongali worked hard to learn dance techniques, became the leader of the school's dance performance, and won several awards in the province.
After graduation, she joined the Anhui Provincial Song and Dance Troupe as a professional dancer. He showed his talent in dance and performance, and even became a special guest actor on the provincial TV station, and also participated in the performance of the Spring Festival Gala.
However, Tongali is not satisfied with this and hopes to go further in her dance profession.
She decided to enter the Beijing Dance Academy, which is known as the highest school of dance on the mainland.
In her studies and training, she discovered a new art form – body art. This art form of expressing natural beauty from the human body is very popular abroad, but few people dare to try it due to the traditional aesthetic concept of Chinese.
However, Tongali realized that body art is not only a form of beauty, it can also present the lines, proportions and skin texture of the human body through painting, photography, sculpture, etc., while conveying the creator's thinking and perception of human image, emotion and human nature. So, she decided to become the first artist in China to try this art theme.
She photographed a body art collection named after her in 2002 and sold out immediately, making her feel the Chinese people's yearning for this beauty. Despite many skepticisms, Tongari is convinced that her creation is not just to brush up on presence, but to truly spread art.
Of course, people's evaluation of beauty is always subjective, because everyone's understanding of beauty and aesthetic preferences are different. Body art can be seen both as a way of exploring body form and aesthetics, and as an explicit or profane form of expression by many.
So even now, some of Tongali's works are not accepted by everyone. Negative public opinion had an impact on Tongari's life, and in 2008, her husband chose to divorce.
Even when her father learned about it, he eventually broke off the father-daughter relationship with her. However, Tongali was well aware of the artistic value behind her actions and did not back down.
Despite many setbacks, she never gave up on her artistic dreams. On the road of show business, she has participated in many popular works and achieved certain achievements.
Today, Tongali is 47 years old. Although she has reconciled with her father, she has never remarried since her divorce, silently sticking to her artistic path.
Looking back on all this, we should keep an open mind when appreciating and evaluating body art, respect the creative freedom of artists, and rationally think about the aesthetics and artistic connotations in it.