Psychedelic Art

The Psychedelic Movement:

Psychedelic work is inspired by Psychedelic experience which originate and are induced by certain drugs. This movement began in the 1960's counterculture. The art was displayed through music posters, festival posters, light shows, album covers, comic books and underground newspapers. It was said that the art looked like "kaleidoscopically swirling patterns of LSD hallucinations, but also revolutionary political, social and spiritual sentiments inspired by insights derived from these psychedelic states of consciousness." The digital age has expanded the horizon of Psychedelic Art.

Artist from the Psychedelic Movement:

Robert Venosa:

Carlos Santana says that Venosa's work "truly captures the imprint of a spiritual force, each painting so alive, seeming to breathe, pulsate and stare back at you, challenging the viewer to also reach their highest potential."

The colours that Venosa uses contrast strongly creating a strong statement.
His use of line is experimental and vigorous. Smooth edges, and some sharp. Instantly your eyes move to the centre of the piece focusing on the main lady in the middle, after that your eyes wonder all around.

Pablo Amaringo:

Amaringo's work is inspired from the ayahuasca visions that he has.
He uses a lot of colours, ranging from blues and purples to yellows and bright pinks. His work is very specific and detailed. The line is quite thin and smooth.
















Rick Griffin

The late Rick Griffin was an American artist, a comic and psychedelic artist, and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. This is a poster that he created for a Greatful Dead Concert. His art has almost a dark side to it, it's grungy. Red is the most dominate colour in this piece, which reflects passion, heat, and anger. The hierachy begins at the yellow centre, then gradually moves through out the poster.

John Van Hamersveld

John Van Hamersveld was a great artist and helped give the phychedelic era a vocabulary, a voice. I love his style, the colours he uses, the bold statements he makes. He ranks amongst one of the great illustrators of pop culture. Due to the fact that his work is so popular, his work was printed on t-shirts and worn by fans.

Work in Progress:

Work in progress:

Postmodernism

Postmodernism literally means the movement after the modernist movement. It's hard to locate when postmodernism actually began due to the fact that there are so many varieties of disciplines or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, fashion, and technology.

Artist from the Postmodernism Movement:

Neville Brody:

Brody is a qualified Graphic Designer, and in the 1980's became the art director at Fetish Records. He experiments with new type faces and mixed fonts, ignored typeface sizes and standard distances between lines, interspersing fonts with decorative elements.






David Carson is the founder, principle and chief designer for David Carson Design, Inc. with offices in New York City and Charleston, SC. He likes to experiment in way to communicate using different mediums. His unique style has constantly been defined as illegible. He is a rule breaker when it comes to the design principles. His work is probably my favourite.




Barbara Kruger


Barbara Kruger is an American artist known for her controversial art pieces. Kruger uses existing photographs and layers them with aggressive text. All of her pieces are very powerful and allow for her viewers to commit to great thought when pondering what her pieces symbolize. Her instantly recognizable photographs explore the dynamics or power, representation, sexuality, and identity. She constantly challenges the question of stereotypes and cliches using phrases such as 'i shop, therefore i am," and "Your body is a battleground". She manly uses simple colours including black, white, grey and red. She then adds the words to provoke emotion in the audience.

The DADA Movement.

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Dada had only one rule: Never follow any known rules.
Dada work is random and spontaneous. I quite like that. My style is very random, I don't like specific structure. There are many aspects to this form of design which I will investigate.


When text is used, it is complete random, there are all sorts of different fonts and sizes used within each piece. There is some illegible typography, words that flow in all sorts of directions, words printed on top of eachother, and upper case and lower case used with no method at all.

Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters was an artist, graphic designer, typographer, set designer and poet who moved to Hannover in 1919 after completing his studies at the Berlin Akademie. He published his own version of Dadaism called "Merz". He uses many different mediums in his piece that include newspaper clippings, paint, crayon, cardboard, and scraps of paper.

This piece to the right is called Undbid.

André Breton

When Tristan Tzara came to Paris from Zürich in 1916, Breton joined the Paris DaDa movement together with his friends Paul Eluard and Phillipe Soupal. When it came to the DaDa publications in Paris, Brenton played a big role.



This piece is called Surrealist Landscape .

Richard Huelsenbeck

On January the 17th, Richard Huelsenbeck moved to Berlin which is where he founded the Berlin Dada group.

Richard Huelsenbeck was the editor of the Dada Almanach, and wrote Dada Sieght, En Avant Dada and other Dadaist works. He was the author of many Dada publications, and claimed throughout his life that "dada is still existing".