In the history of painting, the origin of human body art should be the earliest stone age. Venus of Willendorf, discovered in Australia, is a stone sculpture of the Paleolithic human body, which completely emphasizes the characteristics of women, such as big breasts and two bars that obviously look like vaginas, while weakening women's facial features and things that can highlight her personal characteristics. This leads to that when you look at this work, you will not only think that she is a plump woman, but also read it. Moreover, it is very small and can be held in the palm of your hand. Body art has a long history. Human beings created human body sculptures in prehistoric art, such as the female body in Venus of Willendorf in the Paleolithic Age and the male body relief in Heyar's tomb in ancient Egypt. In 50 BC, Pompeii discovered the earliest human mural in history.

During the Renaissance, figure painting prevailed, mainly in the form of mythical themes. Many painters in modern times have created different styles of figure painting, and the theme of figure painting has continued to this day. Especially in the history of European art, it has far-reaching influence. From ancient Greece, Renaissance,17th century to19th century and now, for thousands of years, countless artists have expressed beautiful figures in different ways, which can convey all kinds of inner spirits, thoughts and feelings, regardless of structural proportion, dynamics or skin color. If art is the concentrated expression of beauty, then oil painting human body art is the symbol of human beauty. Human's understanding of nudity is the result of the development of human civilization.

China people's attitude towards human body art has neither the ideal spiritual pursuit of the unity of God and man in ancient Greece nor the spiritual realm of emphasizing the unity of sexy and aesthetic feeling and beautifying people's natural attributes in the Renaissance. China's radical art regards verve and artistic conception as the highest standard of art and pursues the realization of "mind".

Venus occupies an important position in the history of western body art. Due to the influence of geographical environment and traditional culture, China has formed its own unique body art form compared with various western body arts.

There is not much difference between Chinese and western prehistoric body art, and both have the modeling concept of female reproductive worship. It is only because of the emergence of ancient Greek culture, Renaissance and Oriental civilization that Chinese and Western body art began to move towards different development paths.

Western art, on the other hand, develops in the field of realistic representation, taking truth, goodness and beauty as the criterion and pursuing the unity of reason and truth, goodness and beauty.

The different body art appreciation norms in modern China reflect different cultural atmosphere and value orientation.

Georg wilhelm friedrich hegel's human body is the freest and most beautiful of all images.