The Poi Dance — a still from the animation
The Poi Dance · Contemporary Māori Painting

The Poi Dance

Contemporary Māori Painting · Arts of Africa & Oceania

AI-animatedAdded September 2026

The Poi Dance takes its visual language from Contemporary Māori Painting, one of the traditions in the collection's Arts of Africa & Oceania wing. Like every piece here it is AI-generated — not a photograph of an original artwork — and it has been animated for an idle display.

Sculpture, bark cloth, body ornament and mask-making across Africa and the Pacific produced some of the boldest abstraction anywhere — form pared to its essentials, surfaces alive with pattern. European modernism spent the twentieth century catching up with it. These pieces take their cues from that geometry.

Added to the collection in September 2026. It's part of the full collection, which opens up with a subscription or the one-time lifetime purchase. The free tier starts you off with 50 other pieces.

Every piece in this collection is generated by AI in the style of a historical movement, then animated. They are original homages — not scans, photographs or reproductions of existing artworks.

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