Question:
Good 60's style Psychedelic Artists?
I really like psychedelic art (think: the cover of Disraeli Gears by Cream) but I'm finding it hard to find any good artists of the same sort of style (mostly I just keep on finding computer-generated stuff which i don't like). Does anyone know any good artists of this sort?
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Good Question. I think the Psychedelic Art period is in stark contrast to the simpler lines of mainstream modern art more popular and mainstream in the 60's influenced by earlier more ornate styles like Art Nouveau, Dada and Pop Art.
Kitsch is not such a bad word and describes the colorful and ornate work often seen in a commercial setting, i.e. posters and album covers.
There was a NYTimes article this week on a show at the Whitney Museum of Art on this style:
"It makes sense that the predominating ??60s pop aesthetic was distilled from art and artists distained by High Modernism: decorative styles like Jugendstil and Art Nouveau; decadent artists like Aubrey Beardsley and Alphonse Mucha; riffs from Victorian fairy-tale illustration or Saturday morning TV. Kitsch, in other words, but hallucinated kitsch."
Wikipedia:
"San Francisco poster artists such as: Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse & Alton Kelley, and Wes Wilson. Their Psychedelic Rock concert posters were inspired by Art Nouveau, Victoriana, Dada, and Pop Art. Richly saturated colors in glaring contrast, elaborately ornate lettering, strongly symmetrical composition, collage elements, and bizarre iconography are all hallmarks of the San Francisco psychedelic poster art style. The style flourished from about 1966 - 1972. Their work was immediately influential to album cover art, and indeed all of the aforementioned artists also created album covers.
Although San Francisco remained the hub of psychedelic art into the early 1970's, the style also developed internationally: Majorca based painter Mati Klarwein created psychedelic masterpieces for Miles Davis' Jazz-Rock fusion albums, and also for Carlos Santana Latin Rock. Pink Floyd worked extensively with London based designers, Hipgnosis to create graphics to support the concepts in their albums."