““In the 20th century after WWII, Ralph Burke Tyree led the transformation and appreciation of the South Pacific’s serene beauty with his art. Furthermore he was the premier artist in American iconic movement of the Tiki revolution which emanated from Hawaii and California. He likely painted thousands of different pieces, initially oils on board, mostly wahines, au naturale. Starting in 1960 he switched to oils on black velvet with the portraiture nudity, more demure or sometimes a silhouette in a jungle scene.””
![“[Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008] helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life.” quote by Michael Kimmelman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b3c/michael-kimmelman-33676_art_robert-rauschenberg-1925-2008-helped-to_1386378.jpg)
![“Remember, this is back in the 1940s, and it was sculpture which probably - in my instance probably came out of the European influence, [Alexander] Archipenko and things of that sort, [Jacques] Lipchitz to a certain extent, and I was influenced by those things and attempted to do work that emulated…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3bb/warren-mackenzie-4654_certain_remember-this-is-back-in-the-1940s-and-i_1049731.jpg)
