Tattoo Motives-Modern and Mixed Motives

Tattoo Motives-Modern and Mixed Motives

Modern and mixed motives


About contemporary styles of tattooing is actually not a lot of talking. You see them on countless web pages (search engine, Yahoo or Google, type the keyword "tattoo" and certainly it will appear more than one page).
Today probably is not the design, symbol, image, fantasy or realistic images that would not have been tattooed. It is possible everything what can imagine a human (such or other) fantasy.
Common is a combination of traditional or derivation symbols of modern or modified designs, especially in recent times, however, people often
opt for an ancient motifs and returning to Tribal and Celtic (or Germanic or Nordic) design and symbolism. During the current prevailing fantasy motives, scenes from the literary or - more frequently - the film world and the animated cartoon films, and pop-art icon from modern world, new technology and the urban symbolic, figures of famous personalities, singers, actors, in short - anything just you can imagine, thinking or desire.
Among the most modern designs include the 'classic' designs (ships, heart, female characters), then a realistic image (images or photographs; people, animals, landscape), motifs from the heavy metal world (various demons, skulls, etc.) and such other and fantasy or comic-book drawings.

Modern and mixed motives

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Tattoo-First Tattoo

Tattoo-First Tattoo

Tattoo-First Tattoo


I think that nowadays the most widespread disease is lack of identity and the consequent search for meaning and itself. Partly because it is actually no solid signs and signals the social environment message to us: This is you. Now you are grown up. You are a man. You are a woman.
Sometimes they did not have these problems. In many traditional societies today are familiar with such as rites of initiation. Watershed, where the girl 'official' (read: socially recognized) to become a woman. The boy becomes a man, a warrior, an adult. The child becomes a member of community.
Such turning points today, and although we believe that them we do not need and that we live in modern society, this archetypal and deeply rooted in the particularities of a man much impact on our lives and thinking, although this fact may not be aware, all this leads to a loss of cohesion with itself, with native nature and the nature around us, and with our real identity.
No, not that I got too ... Here's; the first tattoo is like a loss of innocence, there is no turning back. I say 'first', as often happens, that a man thing 'pulls' and addictive, and the first tattoo followed by the second, third, fourth, etc...

Tattoo-First Tattoo

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New Tattoo Pictures-Chinese Motif Tattoo

New Tattoo Pictures-Chinese Motif Tattoo

New Tattoo Pictures-Chinese Motif Tattoo


Quite often Chinese motif is for example dragon (called the 'Long'). Those in the Chinese mythology are not threatening like monsters, but embody the vise and good creatures, some of them have a particularly high 'status', the so-called royal or 'Emperor' Dragons. Common are also other motives, such as such in everyday life and those that are related to beliefs, demons, astrologers, etc.

New Tattoo Pictures-Chinese Motif Tattoo

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Japanese tradition of tattooing

Japanese tradition of tattooing

Japanese Koi Tattoo


For the Japanese tradition of tattooing, which is otherwise one of the most famous and most beautiful, characterized by live, strong colors, and tattoos, which cover (almost) the whole body, both men and women. Even today, some of the ancient techniques to preserve, either in terms of color, or method of tattooing, and some the most famous artists still do not use needles or electrical tattoo equipment, but depicting by hand. In recent times there has been the integration of Japanese techniques with modern western, and also to imitate the styles.

Tattooed Japanese Girl

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Tattoo Tradition

Tattoo Tradition

Chinese Dragon Tattoo


The most famous tattoo tradition is probably the Chinese, even more Japanese, the latter has developed a virtually separate and isolated from the rest, it has developed a strong and significant, inherent and identifiable elements. In Japan, for example, Samurai was tattooed in the sign of belonging to his lord, or members of the high priesthood, as a sign of susceptibility, and service to the emperor. In recent times, some elements have taken marginalized communities, including some criminal (notorious yakuza).

Japanese Tattoos

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