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If you experienced music in the rain, torn bell bottoms, neon colors, dizzying patterns, tie dye and hair, lots of hair - you're probably a child of the 60s. The art and graphics from the Sixties was unprecedented. Artists Warhol, Max, Haring and Escher (okay, they're not all sixties artists but they influenced it or were inspired by the artists from that period ) are among the many standout artists of the time. Today the sixties-influenced work of contemporary artists Shepard Fairey and Banksy keep the movement alive and well.
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Reticulata"
“Psychedelic Art”
The 1960s, a time of radical experimentation with psychedelic drugs and imagery, a flowering of interest in Eastern religions and mysticism, and a widespread adoption of film and video as a means of personal expression.
Visions of colors and streaming effects induced by psychedelic drugs and plants were (at this time) a stimulus to creativity that resulted in an explosion of so-called “psychedelic art.” Since the psychedelic character of art can be found in a wide range of art movements (surrealism, abstraction, etc.), it is more accurate to refer to a psychedelic “sensibility” rather than “movement.”
The 60s was a ernest period of trial and activity, fueled by a new youth culture that placed a higher value on experience than possession, that preferred personal creativity to consumption, and that sought the spiritual rather than the material.
The contemporary art programs in the 60s continued their vibrancy throughout the rest of the 20th century and up to the present time, experiencing a new burst of energy from a new generation.
Reference: Cuba, Larry. "Media Art in the 60s: The Abstract, The Spiritual and The Psychedelic."
Psychedelic art was shrouded in controversy since the time it was being practiced. Here is a look at some details associated with this art form and the role it played specifically in the 1960s
Only a true artist would know the importance of art and how it can be a great form of self-expression. In all forms of art, one has witnessed the changing trends since the ancient days. These trends all are unique in their own way. While some are on the subtle side, others tend to be bit rebellious. The 1960s was one such period that witnessed many trends from the hippy culture to people who would love to rebel and be seen and heard. In art, psychedelic art was one such trend that raised quite a few eyebrows!
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60s Psychedelic Art
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“Pop Versus Op Art”
The sixties and seventies were fertile years for art, brimming with diverse approaches and styles that expanded the definition of art.
Pop art, shortened from popular, was a term coined in 1958 by British critic Lawrence Alloway. Pop artists, notably Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jim Dine, looked to their immediate environment around them, embracing mass-produced goods, advertising, and other aspects of popular culture. It marked a choice for representation over abstraction. Pop artists borrowed images from the mass media, considered "low art," and expanded the notion of appropriate subject matter and techniques in "high art." Many of the artists used a striking graphic style reminiscent of commercial art. Printmaking, especially lithography and silkscreen, was a perfect medium for art whose sources were often found in print. Pop art's cool and detached approach rebels against art that celebrates individualism, self-expression and emotion and the personal touch of the artist's gesture.
Op artists, notably Victor Vasarely, Julian Stanczak and Bridget Riley, were interested in how people perceive phenomena optically. Using an abstract vocabulary, Op artists create optical illusions suggestive of movement, metamorphosis or billowing volumes. Placing specific colors adjacent to one another can cause colors to appear differently, more intense, for example. When viewing an Op work, there is only a brief moment before the dazzling effects seize the eye. Op art came to the fore in 1965 in the exhibition The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art. Although Op art fell out of fashion relatively quickly, there was a revived interest in the 1980s, especially by painters Peter Halley and Philip Taaffe.
Reference: 60s Psychedelic Art Bookstore
“Dicko Basquiat”
YouTube: Coca-Cola Art Gallery - 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s TV Ads
Fallout
The fallout from the Sixties is still with us. Many of the social currents that the various works of 60s art symbolize have yet to exhaust their flow. Of the many messages to be learned from the 60s the most definitive is the need to speak out, speak free, and don't hold back. We, too, are in the midst of a new revolution, the digital art movement. So stir up the dust! -- We WILL BE celebrated in the years to come.
“Psychedelic Teatime
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“Psychedelic Style 2 ”
Did You Know.... That in 1985 Andy Worhol was the first comtempoary artist to draw a portrait of
Debbie Harry (Blondie) on stage using an Amiga computer? See this event at: Amiga Drawing
IN-BOX
"In response to: “Should Art Be Defined?” (“Mary’s Page” commentary, 5 October)
I love infinite vs finite questions. Although the dictionary attempts to define infinite things I must sadly state it’s not the definitive of infinite subjects. God, Universe, infinity, beauty, art, etc… Dictionaries attempt to feed on one’s vanity. This reminds me of Socrates arguments, by the time he finished ‘The Experts’ were stripped of their infinite wisdom. So as far as art has to be … art doesn’t have to be, it is as it is .To think out of the box (no pun attended Mary) One may attempt to regroup universes’ so as to place art in some form of finite concept. However plausible it may seem you just added more descriptions into the dictionary. As far as aesthetics I never know when my brain is going on the flip. Maybe it's my timing, humor or my tingling receptors. When I think of humanities first art I always think of the cave people who spit charcoal on walls. Now that is what I call art. As the saying goes “… Eyes of the beholder”
If you know a lot about art go down to the pond and ask a frog ‘who’s the real artist’ have no fear if he squirts water at you. Frogs don't like bull frogs either.”
“Defining Art is a skill that can be learned by study of the human need for creating forms of expressions that moves the mind or the soul in history that created new forms till today.
The creative mind will define how an artist will express himself and which form he or she will choose and how skillful the works will be presented. In visual art we have reached the point that manual skill that existed in the past no longer define the practice of creating art , but rather how the mind adopt to changes in perception and new tools to explore all possible imaging.”
Next Week: An interview with the artist Kazuhiko Nakamura
This page posted 12 October 2009
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