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Alton Kelley, one of the founding fathers of psychedelic art, died this Sunday at the age of 67.
Alton Kelley was most known for creating psychedelic posters and psychedelic album covers for rockers in the 60s, including such big names as the Grateful Dead (famous "skull and roses" poster), Journey, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, and
Steve Miller. Kelley's works greatly influenced the leading artists of Psychedelic Art movement such as Rick Griffin, who moved to San Francisco after seeing Kelly's psychedelic posters and soon started producing his own.
To pay our tribute to Alton Kelley, photoshop Psychedelic Art any way you wish. Some examples are: create your own psychedelic art, or photoshop any famous posters, movies or paintings to give them
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Psychedelic art - the art which is created at changed conditions of consciousness of the artist. More often by psychedelic art the artefacts are meant which arisen under the influence of drugs or artefacts which describe narcotic effects. However it can be connected with other practices, for example, with glue sniffing. Its background is situated in an extreme antiquity. There is Marquis de Sade among art forerunners of the psychedelic art.
Aesthetic specificity of Psychedelic art consists in delegation of prerogatives of authors-professionals to nonprofessionals: hallucinatory effects are identified with flashes of inspirations, there is an illusion of creative abilities indivisibility creative abilities. The greatest popularity was got by psychedelic musical and literary practices. Subcultures of hippie, punks, "generation X", ravers had Essential influence on formation of Psychedelic art. Leaders of "chemical generation" in the nineties were writers Irvine Welsh, Jeff Nun, Gavin Hill.
Sign of psychedelic literary style is a combination of naturalism and expression, a tragicomedy and a melodrama, transgressivity and irony; the splintered topic, a considerable quantity of characters (basically marginal persons, both Europeans, and the colored immigrants united by the term "euro stuff"); an abundance of jargons, dialecticisms and not standard lexicon (very often screen versions on a source language are accompanied by subtitles), black humor, elements of social satire; an aesthetic shock, heightened interest to the ugly. The basic problematic of the works are narcotic visions, physiological sensations of addicts, the changes occurring in their life owing to narcotic dependence, ecstasy as self-sufficient, absolute life experience, «chemical love», potlatch, AIDS, death.
However these general lines do not testify to existence united “narcotic culture”. It breaks up to great number of subcultures: various psychoactive substances attract and form artists which are different on temperament and a way of life of artists andthe generational fashion on psychoactive substances is changing.
Opiates (crack, heroin, opium), stimulators (cocaine, amphetamines), hallucinogens (acid, psilocybin mushrooms, ketamine), marihuana (the grass, hashish) are different on ability to cause addiction and to demand dose increase, on character of "trip" and "gapper". Marihuana and acid were drugs of hippies; heroin and amphetamines were drugs of the punk; ecstasy (MDMA), combining action of stimulators and hallucinogens, were a favourite drug of rave-culture. Marihuana and acid allowed to peep in the inner world, to find harmony and to feel the strongest mystical experiences. Amphetamines gave an exit of the latent aggression, heroin lead up to a limit a principle «the worse, the better». Ecstasy - the crowning drug of 90th - is rather soft: it stimulates, but it is not so strong and sharp, as cocaine;it gives feeling of a unity and love, but does not threaten such «bad trip», as acid.
Psychedelism, along with other alternative life styles, was an organic component of the rock music of 1960s, pank music of 1970s (its theorist M.Maklaren, the group founder "Sex pistols"), music "rave" and "techno" of 90s with their forced, as after reception of "psychovitamins" perception of a sound, loss of time sense and space.
Psychodelic art is associated also with religious-mystical connotation in a range from «divine revelation» to «leaving in an astral». In this context «art unusual» associates with the mystical power over an audience, collective communion with "wonderful ecstasy". «Mad love to ecstasy" is the paraphrase of "Mad ecstasy of love» (Welsh, Irvine "Undefeated").
I hand drew this picture of Jonathan Davis (from KoRn) back in high school art class (8 years ago) and used a scan I recently dug up of it to create this with fills, gradients and patterns. I would love any comments/critiques!
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Alton Kelley, one of the founding fathers of psychedelic art, died this Sunday at the age of 67.
Alton Kelley was most known for creating psychedelic posters and psychedelic album covers for rockers in the 60s, including such big names as the Grateful Dead (famous "skull and roses" poster), Journey, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, and
Steve Miller. Kelley's works greatly influenced the leading artists of Psychedelic Art movement such as Rick Griffin, who moved to San Francisco after seeing Kelly's psychedelic posters and soon started producing his own.
