Don the Beachcomber - Tiki Carving

SM Sunset Mike Tiki Socialite Sunset Beach, California Joined: Jul 08, 2009 Posts: 555	SM Sunset Mike Posted posted on Sat, May 28, 2016 11:17 PM Tiki Primitiva Mod Height: 16 Inches Material: Black Locust Wood Mount: Freestanding Method: Old style non-machine hand fashioning. Influence: Tiki Mod Colors: Natural Tones Finish: Hand rubbed Tung Oil, “The Concept of using so-called ‘Primitive Art’ to contrast the smooth lines of modern design has its Origin in the inspiration the founding fathers of modern art found in the seemingly naïve and savage aesthetic”-Sven A. Kirsten; The Book of Tiki At the beginning of the 20th century African, Polynesian and other examples of Primitiva that began finding their way to galleries of the european collectors and inspired a generation of rebellious Artists, Gaugin, Picasso, Miro, Klee and Ernst among them, to seek escape the from rigidity of the established standards. The ‘Avante Garde art that would eventually become the hallmark of the Bohemian lifestyle of the last century. Later as a post second World war generation sought escape to Eden in flowered shirts, rum cocktails and exotica instrumentals accompanying dreams of half naked native women and bamboo huts in a steamy tropical paradise, tribal art began to break the monotony of the contemporary living room as the avante garde spread it’s influence into the culture of the atomic age. The Tiki’s time had come. This work is a work of the simple primitive refined in the contemporary method. Familiarly classic, it is Native American Black Locust wood laborously sanded into symphony of brown, amber and black hues in organic patterns deepened by a hand rubbed tung oil finish. A distinctively beautiful and durable hardwood, black locust is both a challenging and rewarding medium to the Artist. Who, when the painstaking work is finished, can bask in the sense of accomplishment equal to the effort. I see in this work the spirit of sentiment the forefathers of modern art might have had in the desire to capture the pre-civilized innocence that exists in somewhere in all of us and wish it to bring a little bit of paradise wherever it goes Sunset Mike

Tiki
Primitiva Mod

Height: 16 Inches
Material: Black Locust Wood
Mount: Freestanding
Method: Old style non-machine hand fashioning.
Influence: Tiki Mod
Colors: Natural Tones
Finish: Hand rubbed Tung Oil,

“The Concept of using so-called ‘Primitive Art’ to contrast the smooth lines of modern design has its Origin in the inspiration the founding fathers of modern art found in the seemingly naïve and savage aesthetic”-Sven A. Kirsten; The Book of Tiki
At the beginning of the 20th century African, Polynesian and other examples of Primitiva that began finding their way to galleries of the european collectors and inspired a generation of rebellious Artists, Gaugin, Picasso, Miro, Klee and Ernst among them, to seek escape the from rigidity of the established standards. The ‘Avante Garde art that would eventually become the hallmark of the Bohemian lifestyle of the last century.
Later as a post second World war generation sought escape to Eden in flowered shirts, rum cocktails and exotica instrumentals accompanying dreams of half naked native women and bamboo huts in a steamy tropical paradise, tribal art began to break the monotony of the contemporary living room as the avante garde spread it’s influence into the culture of the atomic age. The Tiki’s time had come.
This work is a work of the simple primitive refined in the contemporary method. Familiarly classic, it is Native American Black Locust wood laborously sanded into symphony of brown, amber and black hues in organic patterns deepened by a hand rubbed tung oil finish. A distinctively beautiful and durable hardwood, black locust is both a challenging and rewarding medium to the Artist. Who, when the painstaking work is finished, can bask in the sense of accomplishment equal to the effort.
I see in this work the spirit of sentiment the forefathers of modern art might have had in the desire to capture the pre-civilized innocence that exists in somewhere in all of us and wish it to bring a little bit of paradise wherever it goes
Sunset Mike

Post #764364 by Sunset Mike on Sat, May 28, 2016 11:17 PM