MARQUESAS ISLANDS TATTOO FLASH SET
MARQUESAS TATTOO DESIGN, TATAU STYLE
In the immensity of the ocean Pacific there are this archipelago formed by12 volcanic islands. In the immensity of the ocean Pacific there are this archipelago formed by12 volcanic islands. Like about a 2000 years ago a part of polynesian vojagers discovered this place and settled as primitive form, startin and evolving their own intricate and specific culture. This land was discovered from the spanish discoverer Alvaro de Mendana during his search of Land of Ophir in 1595. He vaguely reported about the use of the massive tattoos of the savages, after a brief period he traveled away without tracing any record on the maps to register the island’s positions.
In 1774 James Cook with his aquipage re-disvoverd this group of islands but the very first time that somebody made accurate descriptions of the marquesan’s life and customs it was the russian Ivan Federovich Krusenstern in 1804, with him was employed a german naturalist for recordings, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff. With his profound iterest he wrote important documents about Tattooing, to add illustrations at the text he was helped from W.G.Tilesius von Tilenau, painter and curious man that did very clear and detailed drawings of the tattoos. This literature became printed and diffused in europe.
The very first time that someone did have analysed deeply the use of tattooing in Marquesan Islands it was the german physician and scholar Karl von den Steinen. He traveled across the world to get as all artefacts as possible to study them. In 1897 he traveled to the Marquesas, recording the old native’s memories and informations about myths, legends and rituals of their culture. For 20 years he labored to complete his three immense volumes, Die Marquesaner und ihre Kunst, published in 1928.
Consequently the american anthropologist Willowdean Chatterson Handy and his wife travelled to Marquesas in 1920, they did anthropological and archeological investigation even in tattooing, but at that time this practice was already banned by europen cristian colonists.
Since the first sketches done with pencil on paper, i proceeded refining any drawing step by step resolving both layouts and symbolic aims and order. Working on with pen and Indian Ink for lines and in some cases packing parts, then finishing each drawing using ecoline and brushes of various sizes.
Copies are realized in normal A3 sheet size, the original ones where scanned at 2400 dpi and printed with high-tech printer on very good quality paper 180gr. This offer are ideal to those who want to expose and furnish at their studio’s walls a perfect logical and stylist weapon or for traveller artist who desire to bring-em as samples. An amazing instrument to build relationships and open new dialogue between tattooists and motor enthusiast customers all over the world.
Every Tattoo flash set by Markingegno it is accompanied with basic outlines extra foils, very practice and realdy for tracing, stencil, rework and adaptations, this ones are printed in standard A3 white paper.
