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5 points for bisque 5 points for glaze10 points total
In the Polynesian cultures of the Pacific Ocean a tiki is a name given to large carvings
of humanoid forms. These carvings often
serve to mark the boundaries of sacred or significant sites.
Tiki’s appear in New Zealand, Cook Islands, Tahiti, and in Hawaii.
These carved humanistic
figures are non realistic human representations, and are distorted proportions of
the human body parts.
Carvers were capable of producing realistic forms but they
deliberately ignored anatomical proportions.
The patterns and exaggerations of some anatomical features and reduction of others varies per
island, each island developed its own style of Tikis.
A problem faced the carvers, how to carve the arms and hands? Two
solutions followed, one with the arms flexed and the hands resting on the
abdomen or chest and the other with the arms pendent or resting on the hips.
The pendent straight arms occur in Tonga and Hawaii and hands
resting on the hips in Hawaii. Both flexed and pendent positions were
used in Easter Island.
The deliberate ignoring of accurate detail is evident in the treatment of the hands which were usually blocked out in
mass and the fingers then separated by grooves. The fingers sometimes exceeded five and in Tahiti, though the usual number was five, they were sometimes four or three. In
Rarotonga, the well-made fishermen's gods though usually with five fingers, sometimes had four but in the multiple
small figures on the staff images, the common number was 3.
In these cultures mythology the Tiki is the first human.
In some regions they believed that the Tiki himself creates
the first human by mixing his blood with clay!
Tikis are considered spiritual
figures whose, scary mouths and
menacing expressions
frighten away evil. Their headdress vary and have
different meanings according to the
shape.
Easter Island Sculptures
887 human figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Easter Island ,between the years 1250 and 1500. Hundreds were transported from an area and set on stone platforms called ahu
around the island's perimeter. The largest one is over 33 feet tall.
If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Ideas won't work unless
YOU do.
Of all the things you
wear, your
expression is the most
important
YOUR ASSIGNMENT:1. Throw a cylinder on the wheel that is
5 inches minimum height. 2. Use the INCISED surface
decoration method to carve out a tiki humanoid form when the cylinder is
leather hard.3. High Fire three toned glaze finish
YOUR TIKI MUGS MUST HAVE THE FOLLOWING TO be fired:1. Undercut Foot2. Scary styled peanut mouth
3. Stylized Eyes4. Headdress5. Three colored H. F. Glaze application6. 5” Height
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.
Lao Tzu
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.Baba Ram Dass
It is better to practice a little
than talk a lot.Muso Kokushi
The best vitamin for making friends
B1
Another word for luck is PERSISTENCE
If you believe you achieve
If you want your dreams to come true, you mustn't oversleep.
“Tiki Culture” refers to a South Seas-inspired pop culture
movement in the U.S. This includes Tiki-themed bars, drinks
and art. Tiki culture was at its height in the 1950s and '60s,
although Tiki culture in the U.S. actually began in the '30s with
Don the Beachcomber.
Donn Beach (aka Ernest Raymond
Beaumont-Gant) was responsible for the
movement when he opened
“Don the Beachcomber”
restaurant in the 30’s.He was inspired from
sailing through the South Pacific.
Tiki culture was also influenced by the return of American soldiers from WWII.
At that time affordability of travel happened for the middle class, particularly newly established air travel to Hawaii. This helped to propel the nation's interest in all things tropical.
Kon-TikiKon-Tiki is the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific
Ocean from South America to the Polynesian Islands. Heyerdahl and five
companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean before
smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Taumotu
Islands on August 7, 1947
Josh Agle: aka SHAG
is a contemporary
Southern Californian artist
who became popular for his
tiki art.
SHAG