Post #536439 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 11:18 AM

On 2010-06-15 11:04, JOHN-O wrote:
Let me throw this out. Would anyone here consider "Tiki art" to be part of the Low Brow art movement? Here's one definition:

"An underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s. Lowbrow is a widespread populist art movement with origins in the underground comix world, punk music, hot-rod street culture, and other California subcultures."

I would argue that classic Tiki-style and Tiki Modern are the precursors to the Low Brow art movement and a significant part of it with Tiki Revival art.

Low Brow art has a self-consious sense of humor to it so maybe that's why the artists are so nice.

(But GROG did hurt my feelings one time. :D )

That last one is a good point: The sense of humor about oneself and one's work will certainly help one to stay level-headed.

I don't agree with your assessment about Low brow art and the percentage of Tiki in it. I believe the low brow scene and its output of are much vaster, with only a small percentage being Tiki-related.

But this thread is quickly going all over the place now -because we are attempting to bring it into a Tiki context, which isn't really there. I think the initial question was more an expression of Zeta working out the recent affront towards him than something that really relates to Tiki art.
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[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2010-06-15 11:23 ]