Tattoos And Pop Culture

Tattoos come from a long history in many places and from many cultures; however today I am only focusing on the American history of the tattoos. Over the past thirty years tattoos have undergone and ecstatic change while the American 's cores cultural Reference books actually see tattooing as an art. (Levin) During the 1970 's artists began actually expanding their artistic skills on to tattooing. Artist took discipline fine arts to a whole new level. They aggrandized their im-agination and began to embrace tattooing for the art it actually is. They found a new way to show their personality through new arts. Tattoos have changed in the cultural status, been put in to museums and galleries as art, and have changed from just being in the subculture

No matter where you look you will always see someone in today 's pop culture with a tattoo. Today there are more people with tattoos in the mainstream of life that have tattoos, then there were back 40 years ago. Now a days there are actually more young wom-en with tattoos rather than there are men. People with tattoos now age from eighteen years old to twenty-five years old, that’s more than one third of America 's young adults. Tattoos years ago were more seen as trashy or seemed to found on unsuccessful people. Back forty years ago you wouldn’t have seen tattoos on women by any means necessary, but you 'd see them on the sol-diers or sailors or people in the armed forces. I suppose you could say after the Vietnam War tat-toos popped up in more place than people knew of. Soldiers would get tatted to show off some patriotism, while want to be soldiers would go get their names tatted on themselves in the alpha-bet from the Vietnam language. Now Tattoos have hit it off in the pop cultural society rather than in the subcultural society. Tattoo shops and TV series have been hitting the main TV net-works, and even showing up all over towns. Tattoo studios have their own shows on TV, for ex-ample there 's Miami Ink, Tattoos after dark and many more. Social Media networks have millions of tattoo followers. Facebook and twitter have places on the websites for people to advertise their business on the website. That’s how most of the tattoo businesses get he word out about their art work and their people that actually do the work. “It comes as no surprise that the tattoo industry is the sixth fastest-growing retail business in America, as determined by the U.S. News & World Report. This has obviously translated to online interest as well, as there are more than 147 million tattoo related searches each month on Google.” (Thobo-Carlsen)What made tattoos become this