TeaKEY's critikeys (starting new p12) - Collecting Tiki

T teaKEY Tiki Socialite The thumb ! Joined: Nov 09, 2004 Posts: 3687	T teaKEY Posted posted on Thu, Dec 21, 2006 5:29 PM "I just think the perception of what art is here in the States is wrong. Ceramics get a bad rap, here its basically just seen as a "craft", no where near the prestige of paint on canvas - Stuckie" Ture. I was been thinking of this a lot. In the Tiki Art Shows, a painting by a unknown artist or a quick painting will fetch least a starting price of around 300 maybe alittle less. As high as $8,000. This is gallery prices but still the work in the paint isn't anymore better than a original design sculpture or mug. I think that it has a lot to do with, a mug is just something you drink with or a collector piece but not art. Its true that tiki mugs are collection items and drinking mugs but they very much could be art and should be art, if that is its purpose. Would I buy a $300 painting, did, and would I buy a $300 coffee mug, no. Would I spend more if that mug was an equally nice piece as the painting and was art in itself, yes. I always try to crack what art is. I say, it has a lot to do with the artist. If the piece is an progression of thought with many overcome paths to lead down to the most meaningful expression one can produce, its art. Is it a Bob Ross painting, does that fit the above idea, not to me it doesn't, that is a craft. If you can make it without the act of thinking, craft. For me, its a journey, a love affair with the object, getting whats in my head out in the best way. I find it a spiritual act, being in the moment, finding the answers, and leaving with a higher being. And now, to add to what Capo said that he doesn't get to always do his best work cause no one is willing to pay for it. I would like to see the art of tiki elevated but is the a market there for the mugs. I see that Munktiki just made their Kustom ordered mugs. Two have came out so far and the points that they connect, is an awesome line. Not that a custom mug could be made but that a Brand Name can make your ideas and different form someone else is a radial idea. I see the level of tiki mugs being elevated and is going to make the rest of us push higher or fall behind.

"I just think the perception of what art is here in the States is wrong. Ceramics get a bad rap, here its basically just seen as a "craft", no where near the prestige of paint on canvas - Stuckie"

Ture. I was been thinking of this a lot. In the Tiki Art Shows, a painting by a unknown artist or a quick painting will fetch least a starting price of around 300 maybe alittle less. As high as $8,000. This is gallery prices but still the work in the paint isn't anymore better than a original design sculpture or mug.

I think that it has a lot to do with, a mug is just something you drink with or a collector piece but not art. Its true that tiki mugs are collection items and drinking mugs but they very much could be art and should be art, if that is its purpose. Would I buy a $300 painting, did, and would I buy a $300 coffee mug, no. Would I spend more if that mug was an equally nice piece as the painting and was art in itself, yes.

I always try to crack what art is. I say, it has a lot to do with the artist. If the piece is an progression of thought with many overcome paths to lead down to the most meaningful expression one can produce, its art.
Is it a Bob Ross painting, does that fit the above idea, not to me it doesn't, that is a craft. If you can make it without the act of thinking, craft.

For me, its a journey, a love affair with the object, getting whats in my head out in the best way. I find it a spiritual act, being in the moment, finding the answers, and leaving with a higher being.

And now, to add to what Capo said that he doesn't get to always do his best work cause no one is willing to pay for it. I would like to see the art of tiki elevated but is the a market there for the mugs.

I see that Munktiki just made their Kustom ordered mugs. Two have came out so far and the points that they connect, is an awesome line. Not that a custom mug could be made but that a Brand Name can make your ideas and different form someone else is a radial idea. I see the level of tiki mugs being elevated and is going to make the rest of us push higher or fall behind.

Post #274331 by teaKEY on Thu, Dec 21, 2006 5:29 PM