{"id":2143,"date":"2014-12-12T16:38:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2015-10-26T23:56:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:56:45","slug":"strange-art-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/strange-art-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange art mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2145\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-710-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-710\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>Q<\/strong>:\u00a0 I acquired this mask decades ago. I was told at that time that it&#8217;s South American, but they knew nothing more than that. It is carved of wood, covered with pebbles (?), then painted. It has a dark brown or black undercoat which shows slightly where it&#8217;s worn. I look forward to the benefit of your opinion.\u00a0 Martin, 710<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>:\u00a0 I like to refer to these as &#8220;art masks.&#8221; <!--more-->They can be lots of things: homemade masks made for a party, something different done by an artist or sculptor, a class project, etc. I have purchased quite a few over the years and you can see some of them on this website. I might have bought this one because I think it is cool! What is strange is that it is made with an old tribal carved-wood mask as its base. I&#8217;m going to give it an A, but don&#8217;t get too exited. The Mask Man has strange tastes. Most collectors avoid this kind of thing.\u00a0 <strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check out the following links to view some of our art masks<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/masks-for-sale\/#!\/Contagious-Disease-mask\/p\/26086016\/category=6105073\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Contagious Disease Mask<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/masks-for-sale\/#!\/Cardboard-Lion-mask\/p\/26086028\/category=6105073\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cardboard Lion Mask<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/masks-for-sale\/#!\/Silver-spoon-art-mask\/p\/29299113\/category=6105073\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Silver Spoon Art Mask<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I acquired this mask decades ago. I was told at that time that it&#8217;s South American, but they knew nothing more than that. It is carved of wood, covered with pebbles (?), then painted. It has a dark brown or black undercoat which shows slightly where it&#8217;s worn. I look forward to the benefit of your opinion.\u00a0 Martin, 710 A:\u00a0 I like to refer to these as &#8220;art masks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","category-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}