Post #199275 by wicked on Mon, Nov 21, 2005 10:19 AM

Of course not. We are talking about a style. A carving is a carving. A portrait is a portrait.
Put it this way; If an artist produced an abstract and said it was realism, does that mean it IS realism? You may disagree but I say NO.

yes I understand that but I just don't see it as being quite so black and white, as traditional TIKI art being the ONLY form that can acceptably call itself TIKI.
You took one part of my original post as if it were my whole point. Ignoring the fact that I had considered more than one aspect of TIKI as an art form. Just because it's not TIKI to you does NOT mean it's not to someone else from another stand point.

As I also stated that it's MY OPINION on the matter, and we're not going to solve an issue that the art world ( not specifically in TIKI) has struggled with from the beginning of time. If you don't like something or don't agree that it is what it says it is don't buy it. To someone else it may be the exact feeling of TIKI they were looking for.