Post #203481 by teaKEY on Fri, Dec 16, 2005 7:43 PM

I was saying that a tiki mug is basically a print if you consider the original design and sculpture of the mug, art. I have handmade tiki mugs. One of a kind sculpture done like any other pottery in an art gallery. I have ten original mugs and the rest of my mug collection are copies of the first mug designed by the company I bought from. I'm sure that you have a few store bought tiki mugs, the mostly the best ones today are the signed and numbered ones. And if you do have one of these, you have a tiki mug "print" or what ever you want to called the thing that you will not buy and put in your house. If you do, I was going to show you that you broke your rule of copies of an original, but if not, your correct and missing out on cool tiki stuff.

I know that your original beef is with prints of paintings but "prints" are done with everything these days. Prints can actually validate an original more. Make an original more famous. To know that you have an original of something that 200 other people or more want and can only have throught a print. 200 of a print still can mean that the next 100 people that want one (print), can't have one.

I have seen prints in my art history book. Chinese wood blocks? And various first printing presses.

thats all, I'm done. I usually just like to question the other sides of things.