Post #501786 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jan 1, 2010 12:04 PM

Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. Your main mistake was that you took Buzzy too seriously. Nobody else here does. Even if he is the shining example of the contemporary Tiki revival artist who actually does study original Oceanic Art, and creates with that in mind, instead of just copying the same low brow grinning cartoon Tiki all over!

And I am profoundly grateful that he cares to post responses to such questions as yours, so that I am not the only one who has to do all the work around here! :wink:

Here's my 'pinion on your most recent items:
1.) Very cool modernist ceramic piece. Not based on any specific culture. I would call it perhaps...TIKI MODERN!
2.) Comedy/Tragedy masks, just that. Though the tragedy one looks Tiki-esque, they primarily are "drama faces"
3.) Not Marquesan, but pre-Columbian

Now I only have to figure out how I can get a Dollar too for each informative post I do.... :D

(maybe if I would leave out those damn smiley faces, I would be taken more seriously, like Buzzy!)