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M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 10883	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Thu, Jul 2, 2009 4:05 PM No one has stirred this pot for a few days so I'll give it a rattle. I've never taken an Art History class but it seems to me that for 4,000 years, the purpose of art was to capture beauty; the perfect sunset, the perfect basket of fruit, the perfect female form. Political statement was relegated to crudely drawn political cartoons. Then somewhere, about 100-150 years ago, art started to attract troubled souls who want to sell us their pain and their political views. Maybe it was the advent of photography that made the art of capturing beauty obsolete and art had to re-invent itself to survive? So far, the subject of this discussion has been the visual arts. What about music? Like Tiki visual art, Tiki audio art is largely exotic and happy. To me personally, music is a much better mood transporter. I frequently get a lump in my throat listening to certain songs, I can't remember that ever happening to me when I looked at a painting. If we need thought-provoking Tiki art, don't we also need Tikiyaki to play songs about the plight of primitive and aboriginal societies. What about a country song about a guy who spends all his money building the perfect home Tiki bar for his wife, only to have her leave him because she wanted a Jimmy Buffett Parrothead bar :(

No one has stirred this pot for a few days so I'll give it a rattle.

I've never taken an Art History class but it seems to me that for 4,000 years, the purpose of art was to capture beauty; the perfect sunset, the perfect basket of fruit, the perfect female form. Political statement was relegated to crudely drawn political cartoons. Then somewhere, about 100-150 years ago, art started to attract troubled souls who want to sell us their pain and their political views. Maybe it was the advent of photography that made the art of capturing beauty obsolete and art had to re-invent itself to survive?

So far, the subject of this discussion has been the visual arts. What about music? Like Tiki visual art, Tiki audio art is largely exotic and happy. To me personally, music is a much better mood transporter. I frequently get a lump in my throat listening to certain songs, I can't remember that ever happening to me when I looked at a painting. If we need thought-provoking Tiki art, don't we also need Tikiyaki to play songs about the plight of primitive and aboriginal societies. What about a country song about a guy who spends all his money building the perfect home Tiki bar for his wife, only to have her leave him because she wanted a Jimmy Buffett Parrothead bar :(

Post #466472 by MadDogMike on Thu, Jul 2, 2009 4:05 PM