Ever buy something you didn't necessarily want, until you found out it's tiki? - Collecting Tiki

M ManFromT.I.K.I. Member Joined: Jul 02, 2007 Posts: 83	M ManFromT.I.K.I. Posted posted on Thu, Apr 3, 2008 9:36 PM Well JT, you identified one of the main aspects of the piece that was also off putting to me. So much so that, as I say, I passed on the first go round. But I'm starting to really appreciate these formal ambiguities. They really give the piece a lot of interest, and I dare say, elevate it a realm approaching fine art modernist sculpture. Certainly more so than any of my mugs. I mean, the mugs are fun and whimsical, but no one is going to mistake them for fine art. OK, reality check here, no one is going to mistake the Strikow for fine art either, but it's less a caricature of a tiki and closer to an independent artistic interpretation and abstraction of primitive form that can stand on its own merit.

Well JT, you identified one of the main aspects of the piece that was also off putting to me. So much so that, as I say, I passed on the first go round. But I'm starting to really appreciate these formal ambiguities. They really give the piece a lot of interest, and I dare say, elevate it a realm approaching fine art modernist sculpture. Certainly more so than any of my mugs. I mean, the mugs are fun and whimsical, but no one is going to mistake them for fine art. OK, reality check here, no one is going to mistake the Strikow for fine art either, but it's less a caricature of a tiki and closer to an independent artistic interpretation and abstraction of primitive form that can stand on its own merit.

Post #371461 by ManFromT.I.K.I. on Thu, Apr 3, 2008 9:36 PM