Post #325345 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Aug 13, 2007 12:34 PM

On 2007-08-13 09:58, The Gnomon wrote:
I always thought these guys had a real modern look even though a they've been around for a thousand years.

I wonder if you could classify them as reverse tiki modern.

I would call them Tikis that are very modernist in their design, and reserve the term TIKI MODERN for appropriate examples from the 50s, 60s and on, like I was trying to elaborate here:

On 2007-08-12 16:28, bigbrotiki wrote:
....even today I could call a just sculpted Tiki very "Tiki Modern", because it combines certain elements of Cubist, moderne and primitive stylization that were INHERENT IN BOTH: ORIGINAL PRIMITIVE ART, and also in works from the 50s and 60s. I am talking about simplicity, elegant lines, and a certain degree of abstraction.

...another example of authentic traditional Tikis that are very modernist in their design are Marquesan Tikis:

The revolutionary "modernness" (as defined above) of authentic primitive art, (which had never been seen by Westerners before the 19th Century), was the very reason it was such an inspiration to the "moderns", the European avantgarde of the 1920s.