Crazy AL Tiki !?! New stuff of old stuff? pg.19 - Tiki Carving

CA crazy al Tiki Socialite CA Joined: Jun 25, 2002 Posts: 1876	CA crazy al Posted posted on Mon, Mar 24, 2008 8:28 PM "imitation is the most sincere form of flattery" so i keep telling Bamboo Ben... Picasso is said to have imitated the masks imported from Africa... and started a whole 'new' movement... today Mark Ryden took the '60's - 70's big eyed child paintings of 'my' child hook memories and now you can't spit without hitting a 'painter' specializing in giant doe'ie eyed characters/or subjects.. and on it goes... although i did not realize i was doing it till i sat down to wright the article on #11... I may have been influenced buy the Kachina Dolls of my Southwestern roots...look at this...a similarity that i found years after i carved #55 Hmmm very similar... and i doubt that Japanese SiFi artist knew they were doing this?? or did they.... art is all inspiration from some where.. [ Edited by: crazy al 2008-03-24 20:30 ]

"imitation is the most sincere form of flattery" so i keep telling Bamboo Ben...

Picasso is said to have imitated the masks imported from Africa... and started a whole 'new' movement... today Mark Ryden took the '60's - 70's big eyed child paintings of 'my' child hook memories and now you can't spit without hitting a 'painter' specializing in giant doe'ie eyed characters/or subjects.. and on it goes...

although i did not realize i was doing it till i sat down to wright the article on #11... I may have been influenced buy the Kachina Dolls of my Southwestern roots...look at this...a similarity that i found years after i carved #55

Hmmm very similar...
and i doubt that Japanese SiFi artist knew they were doing this??

or did they.... art is all inspiration from some where..

[ Edited by: crazy al 2008-03-24 20:30 ]

Post #369076 by crazy al on Mon, Mar 24, 2008 8:28 PM