Western body art has a long and unique tradition in the expression of fear, a tradition that started from ancient Greece and continued into modern times.

Starting from the Marxist historical materialism and the artistic theory, the thesis probes into the social and historical necessity of the emergence of body art from two aspects, namely, the social consciousness and the primitive culture.

This article as cuts into the spot take the west plastic arts in human body image, explains the human body art the creation motive and the esthetic evolution, promulgates the human body art is "the person" art, is from beginning to end take the artificial object as the reference, is most pays attention to person itself the art.