Only Yanik Would Carve Something Like This

[pauls456]

Reminds me of this!

Joel-Peter Witkin, Woman Mastur___ing On the Moon, 1982

 

[Ulfson]

He is amazing!

Indeed! I was delighted to discover such a scholarly and accomplished historian of Meerschaum pipe creation

 

[Ulfson]

Reminds me of this!

Joel-Peter Witkin, Woman Mastur___ing On the Moon, 1982
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Well, thank you for the introduction to work I was wholly unfamiliar with- as with my favorite Alfred Kubin- it seems books about him are mostly out of print or wildly expensive--- disturbingly- (and not much disturbs me) > fascinating stuff !

 

[Ulfson]

I’m not seeing much skill in the carvers work there, look at the hands!!
Saw this one recently, look at the skill that went into this old pipe. The folds & creases in the straw hat alone!
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I agree with you and Ben Rapaport- there was a "Golden Age" of Meerschaum pipe creation from which this example obviously came. But I applaud modern carvers attempting to resurrect a dying art form for a MUCH reduced audience... Some, like S. Yanik, obviously revere and attempt to emulate their artistic predecessors. Who knows? Maybe they jump start a Renaissance of creation over there in Turkey, or that is where a dying art goes to die.