Part two of Psychedelic truisms

Pink Floyd I believe need a mention as psychedelic artists. They would have to be one of the most influential bands for the movements. They used there huge stage shows as a means to express not only audibly but visually their love for psychedelic art. They where the first band to use a traveling light show along with pyrotechnics, projections, moving images and psychedelic patterns on a large circular screen known as "Mr Screen".

The band is well known to be users of LSD drugs, drugs that alter your state of mind and create a psychedelic experience. It was these drugs that ruined the life and caused the separation between Syd Barrett and the band in its early years, but can given merit to some of his best writing. Just listening to the Dark Side of the Moon record, one of their most famous albums, shows how much of a psychedelic band Pink Floyd is. The bands music influenced a lot of the posters and album artwork for the band and as you can see has a very strong psychedelic influence.

Alex Grey

Alex Grey is an American artist who works across several mediums as a spiritual/psychedelic artist. Such mediums are, Live performance, sculpture, process art, visionary art and installation art.

Grey attended a couple of different universities but never finished his degrees, but experimented with LSD drugs, a drug used commonly by psychedelic artists. Through the use of psychedelic drugs Grey met his wife now of 33 years. Both experimented with LSD's and say that through the use of the drugs became spiritually connected. It was when Grey was tripping he came up with the idea for the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. A place he puts his work on permanent display. It took him 10 years to paint the pieces and has since added more of his own artwork and that of other artists.

Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.

Greys work has been influential on many bands such as, Tool, Navarna, Beastie Boys and many more who use his artwork in there album booklets or as there cover art.

Grey is a leading psychedelic artist and much of that has to do with his experiences with LSD's and other drugs. He has said though that it has been sometime since he has done drugs as he is now using meditation and yoga as he is trying to be a leader within his community.

Referances.

http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Salvador_Dali

http://www.psychedelicartists.org/

http://www.pinkfloydonline.com/history/

http://www.alexgrey.com/

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/03/24/findrelig.DTL