One for the arty types on my flist...

[ash48]

Can someone tell me if this is an art "style". If this mural is perhaps homaging an artist or style of art?

There's just something about the way these totem poles are painted, the wing in the top right corner, the foliage snaking its way up the wall, the colour of the background etc. that makes me feel this isn't some random choice. I feel like I love it because it reminds me of something.





Sorry it's not a better capture. We don't get a better shot of that wall - though it features in the background in many of the shots (just not very clearly).


And if you think I've become obsessed......then... darn tootin'! I figure if I'm going to do something then I may as well be thorough about it. (I promise I'll shut up when I'm done... )

Comments

[rhymephile.livejournal.com]

To be more clear, the Native peoples in the US are called "Native Americans" while the Native peoples of Canada are called "First Nations."

The tribes of the Pacific Northwest part of the US and into Canada (so Washington state in the US, and into British Columbia in Canada) practice a very specific type of art, represented with totems and stylistic forms of animals. You won't see any other tribes in the US or Canada using this art. So, in other words, if I were to see this:


I would automatically know it is art that came from one of the tribes of the Pacific Northwest. And that image is a bear, btw.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Ah... I understand. Thank you. :)

A commenter above has suggested that maybe the totem here is of the Thunderbird (in the form of an eagle).

Thanks again for this. I did some reading on it and it has all been very interesting (and enlightening).
xx