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Brad Parker
Faster Than Disaster - Mini Canvas Giclee
8"x12"
$ 395.00 $ 300.00
Brad Parker
Faster Than Disaster - Mini Canvas Giclee
8"x12"
$ 395.00 $ 300.00
$300, includes free shipping to the mainland!
Int'l please inquire with info@tikishark.com
Mini Canvas Giclee's are signed, numbered and gallery wrapped. All giclee's are Brad Parker Limited Editions of 100.
Ships in 3 - 4 weeks
Brad "Tiki-Shark" Parker is a "Tiki-Artist" working in the pop-surrealistic style of the "Low-Brow" Art movement. Learn more about Brad Parker.
Tiki Shark giclee's are created with archival, fade resistant inks on museum quality paper. Printed in Kamuela, on the Island of Hawaii. All prints are certified as authentic, signed by the artist, and guaranteed as represented.
For more information, please contact info@tikishark.
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Forbidden Island's wide horizontal composition allowed me to create different scenes within its frame. On the left is a rustic tropical Tiki Lounge complete with glowing neon sign and two guardians Tiki doormen. Like any good '50's sci-fi film plot, there's a secret Laboratory with a giant tank and floating inside is a huge alien brain. The repulsive purple thing glares outward emitting a ruby-red stream if the telekinetic power it uses to serve up an exotic tropical drink cooling in a frosty cold "Cthulhu Tiki-Mug". This beverage floats out to the exotic Wahine being carried by an accommodating "living Tiki". A giant stone Moai head looks out stoically over a wrecked pirate ship and it's cursed treasure, and further out across the sparkling sunset bay to an equally enormous stone statue carved into the island cliffs of an ancient "elder sea-god" like those written about in books by H.P. Lovecraft. Amongst the exotic flora and fauna is a brilliantly lit wave showing the framed silhouette of a shark cursing the coastline - making sure no one leaves or enters Forbidden Island.Mini Canvas Giclee's are signed, numbered and gallery wrapped. All giclee's are Brad Parker Limited Editions of 100.Visit product page →Brad "Tiki-Shark" Parker is a "Tiki-Artist" working in the pop-surrealistic style of the "Low-Brow" Art movement. Learn more about Brad Parker.
Tiki Shark giclee's are created with archival, fade resistant inks on museum quality paper. Printed in Kamuela, on the Island of Hawaii. All prints are certified as authentic, signed by the artist, and guaranteed as represented.
For more information, please contact info@tikishark.
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Mini Canvas Giclee's are signed, numbered and gallery wrapped. All giclee's are Brad Parker Limited Editions of 100.
Visit product page →Brad "Tiki-Shark" Parker is a "Tiki-Artist" working in the pop-surrealistic style of the "Low-Brow" Art movement. Learn more about Brad Parker.
Tiki Shark giclee's are created with archival, fade resistant inks on museum quality paper. Printed in Kamuela, on the Island of Hawaii. All prints are certified as authentic, signed by the artist, and guaranteed as represented.
For more information, please contact info@tikishark.
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$300, includes free shipping to the mainland!Int'l please inquire with info@tikishark.comWhen I painted "Tiki Cat" I set out to paint the ultimate "low-brow" or "kitschy" piece of "Hawaiiana Tiki-Art".
Research showed the first art pieces called "kitsch" were made in Munich Germany in the 1860's - 1870's. One of the earliest is a lithograph by Frederick Dielman called "The Widow", it depicts a cat wearing a ruffled collar. The Idea for "Tiki Cat" was born: A cat …wearing an Aloha Shirt, playing the ukulele, standing on Waikiki beach, diamond head in the sunset colored background. A Tiki-Mug / exotic-tropical-drink before it, and a jungle-green lighted Tiki behind it. "Tiki Cat's" posed in a classical composition. I carefully figured out glamorous Hollywood lighting. Then came the hardest part - the months of slow exact rendering down to every whisker and grain of sand. I wanted this cartoon character to be as perfectly rendered as I could manage. Time was no object. Dollar per hour was not a consideration… much to my agent's horror. All that mattered was that this was going to be an important painting. The best "souvenir - tourist - Hawaiiana Tiki-Art" I could possibly make. Ten to 14 hours a day, I toiled… for days… for weeks… Three months later I was still painting.
One morning I got up… stumbled into the studio… looked at the cartoon cat still unfinished... and I was overcome by a wave of cold fear.
"What am I doing?" I gasped.
It's just a picture of a cartoon cat… and I'm spending my whole life painting it.
"This is crazy!" I muttered.
I stared at the cat. It was strange, bizarre, but beautiful… Then it struck me. If this piece of art scares me, then it must have risen from mere "tourist kitsch" to the lofty realm of "Real Fine Art". Like it, or hate it, this cat was so exactly rendered you could not help but stare at it.
"It's just a cartoon.. but it's ART!"
This is the essence of "Low-Brow Art". Happily, I picked up the brush and one month later I was finally done.
This painting is my best selling image. I can well imagine that long after I am gone "Tiki Cat" will still be selling in tourist shops all over Hawaii, just as I had hoped. I had touched the mutual fabric of our Hawaiian tourist/souvenir pop-culture" … if I'm lucky, maybe forever.
Side note; on close inspection you see a faint "death head skull" in Tiki Cat's eye. Why? My own cat saw herself as the "Alpha Predator", aka the "Killer Jungle Queen of her Paradise". Thus in all house cat's eyes, if you look close… in it is a reflection of that ancestor of the deadly jungle hunter. It's in a cat's nature. Robert Williams ( the father of Low-Brow Art ) once said; "All that is keeping you from being lunch for the sweetest house cat is your size."
Mini Canvas Giclee's are signed, numbered and gallery wrapped. All giclee's are Brad Parker Limited Editions of 100.
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16" x 20" - $120Visit product page →Brad "Tiki-Shark" Parker is a "Tiki-Artist" working in the pop-surrealistic style of the "Low-Brow" Art movement. Learn more about Brad Parker.
Tiki Shark giclee's are created with archival, fade resistant inks on museum quality paper. Printed in Kamuela, on the Island of Hawaii. All prints are certified as authentic, signed by the artist, and guaranteed as represented.
For more information, please contact info@tikishark.
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