Skin Deep: The Art of the Body Language - General Tiki

A aikiman44 Member NY Joined: Nov 08, 2004 Posts: 281	A aikiman44 Posted posted on Sat, Apr 30, 2005 12:29 PM May 1st Sunday NY Times article with the title: Skin Deep: The Art of the Body Language, about Marquesan Island full body tatoos and an announcement of a show at the Metropolitan Museum beginning May 10 entitled: Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands. "Marquesan artists favored geometric motifs, but they also depicted sacred ancestors on wood, stone, ivory and bone, as well as in tatoos. The images, called tikis, were highly stylized and abstract: art did not imitate nature. The act of creation itself was considered sacred." "Many tatoo designs featured a tiki, or human image, that typically represented a deified ancestor, often as a stylized face." The article includes an illustration of a fully tatooed man with matching tiki tatoos on his thighs, and another with a single one in the middle of his back. And the word tatoo comes from the Marqeusan word tatau.
TC Tiki Chris Member London Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 1542	TC Tiki Chris Posted posted on Sun, May 1, 2005 5:21 PM Well, I definitely will make plans to check this out. Any other TCers wanna set a date? Cheers, Tiki Chris
A aikiman44 Member NY Joined: Nov 08, 2004 Posts: 281	A aikiman44 Posted posted on Mon, May 2, 2005 1:37 PM I'll speak to my girlfriend and let you know. Maybe a combo with Otto's?

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aikiman44 Posted posted on Sat, Apr 30, 2005 12:29 PM

May 1st Sunday NY Times article with the title: Skin Deep: The Art of the Body Language, about Marquesan Island full body tatoos and an announcement of a show at the Metropolitan Museum beginning May 10 entitled: Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands.
"Marquesan artists favored geometric motifs, but they also depicted sacred ancestors on wood, stone, ivory and bone, as well as in tatoos. The images, called tikis, were highly stylized and abstract: art did not imitate nature. The act of creation itself was considered sacred."
"Many tatoo designs featured a tiki, or human image, that typically represented a deified ancestor, often as a stylized face."
The article includes an illustration of a fully tatooed man with matching tiki tatoos on his thighs, and another with a single one in the middle of his back.
And the word tatoo comes from the Marqeusan word tatau.

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Tiki Chris Posted posted on Sun, May 1, 2005 5:21 PM

Well, I definitely will make plans to check this out. Any other TCers wanna set a date?

Cheers,
Tiki Chris

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aikiman44 Posted posted on Mon, May 2, 2005 1:37 PM

I'll speak to my girlfriend and let you know. Maybe a combo with Otto's?