On 2013-07-08 00:56, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
Sorry but I don't recognize glitter as an art form or viable media for Art, maybe as Super Fun Craft Time, sure.
but until you can point out to me a great Artist using it, say like van Gogh, Gauguin, Bacon, Dali etc.
you don't have an argument with legs.
Just to be the Devil's Advocate.....
i will mention ONE great artist...Contemporary...that DOES use glitter in her pieces
Camille Rose Garcia
She uses Black glitter in her backgrounds and the effect is PERFECT for the piece...
Face it Folks.... Once the Kustom Kulture movement seeped into Tiki
there has been a LOT more so-called Tiki offenses...
Tikis with Flames,Tikis in HotRods,pinstriping,etc...
This gearhead art movement appears to have absorbed Tikis into their dialogue
sometimes with disastrous results...certainly not enough great examples to validate the amount they use....
But when an art movement is based on a limited amount of icons
(ie: cars/girls/rat-Fink style monsters/Tattoo iconography)
Artists will find other subject that overlaps and fits into their genre...
in order to liven up or add to that art movement's dialogue...
Tiki happened to be one of these subjects because of the time frame....
World War 2 vets returning home from the Pacific campaign
brought their hand-carved Tiki tourist fare home to decorate their home bars
to emulate the Trader (fill in name here) restaurants and bars on the Mainland
in Southern Cal,the kids of these fellows were into surfing and cars
and of course...the downstairs ManSpace/bars their fathers built...
Glitter and Pin-striping were birthed from the whole Drag /kustom kulture scene
and it was only a matter of time before it seeped into the poly-pop movement...
While a glitter/candy-coated Tiki would be acceptable at any Car Show oriented event
it's not the kind of dialogue the Poly-pop movement needs
because it was inspired by another movement and muddies the water..
Saying all that however
One has to look at kitsch in context...
50's 60's 70's tikistyle embraced kitsch
especially in Home bars
kitsch is America
kitsch is Tiki
Almost like comparing the maikai to somebody's basement Tiki Bar
and doesn't time give that patina of validation to kitsch?
old kitsch is cool-tho it probably didn't appear so at the time...
i think the main problem is that somebody was asleep at the wheel and
crashed two Art genres together when nobody was looking...
and now the poly-pop purists scratch their heads and wonder what happened to their scene?
While a lot of us artists who delve into Tiki try to keep the poly-Pop/Tiki movement pure
there's always room for experimentation,if done with knowledge and skill...
It's an artist's job to challenge and transform
it's just a very narrow tightrope
and most of us fall off...
Disney is to blame as well
and the whole Southern California Disney and the Surf HotRod scene
had a large part in blurring the lines...
Things evolve and devolve
it's a fact.
a sad fact
but a fact nonetheless....
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[ Edited by: little lost tiki 2013-07-08 08:28 ]
