Truism 1

This is the final image for my first truism. I went for the hypnosis wheel as i believe it is a symbol of your consciousness. It also fits the psychedelic movement well.

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

The Psychedelia Movement

I have chosen to use the first of Jenny Holzers truisms to inspire a Psychedelia piece of work. Why? Because as I was reading them one jumped out at me and said hypnosis, that truisms is, "At times your unconscious mind is truer than your conscious mind." So i started looking at optical illusions as a source of inspiration

I think optical illusions are a great part of psychedelia art. They generally aren't recognized but share most of the elements that define psychedelia art. These elements are Bright colors or contrasting colors. Lots of in-depth detail, Kaleidoscopic, paisley or fractal patterns and the morphing of objects or themes.

Psychedelia art was at its largest during the period of 1965 - 1975 and is said to be initiated through the use of psychedelic drugs. Though during this period a lot of artists working in the psychedelic area where on drugs it isn't to be said that it is necessary to be on drugs to develop and produce such stylistic art pieces in todays times. The art work really started to break through as a accompaniment to psychedelic music, such as backgrounds and cd covers and music posters. Such as Woodstock, or from the music of Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd.

Salvador Dali is more commonly regarded as a surrealist artist, but it isn't uncommon for some of his works to pass across into psychedelia art. He used the morphing of bodies and objects a lot and also contrasting colors. Influenced strongly by Freud and said to be the reason why he morphed his animals and human figures, linked with Freuds ideas of sexual representations. other influences where Luis Bunuel (a surrealist film maker), Garcia Lorca (an avant garde poet) and even Hitler (mainly his figure).

Dali used a lot of contrasting colors and morphing in his work which is why he can cross over into the psychedelia realm even though the time of his work was well before and mainly outside of the psychedelic period as he died at the end of it. Here are some examples of his work

To be continued.............

FINAL!!!! landscape

Hey!!! I just made some changes because my housemates where talking about the eating stapler and what if there was an army......now there is :)

Landscape of the absurd

Rossco adventures into his imagination....the landscape of the absurd. I went for a comic style using multiple pictures to create the back ground. I then used some scanned objects that don't really belong together to discombobulate the image a little. I then placed Rossco on a stage as he looks like thats where he belongs.

APPRAISAL

After completing my poster I can see that I have taken on bored some of what the posters I researched used. I used simple color scheme and not making it to busy.

I have used line in my image to create depth. To lines running up the centre of the image (in the form of the yellow brick road) create a depth of field. This stops the imaging being flat and gives it another dimension.

As far as shape goes I used a lot of geometric shapes such as semi-circles triangles etc. These where used because they clearly resemble certain things such as hills or the sun rays. I used abstract shapes as clouds and natural shapes for the small tuffs of grass.

When it comes to color I used an Analogous color system. I choose these colors as they represented the natural color of the objects I was portraying in my picture.

Texture has been used in a couple of ways in my image. The font has a brick texture. I generated this by hand. I drew each letter that I need by hand and drew on the bricks. I then scanned in the letters and constructed my text with them. I think this has been successful as something I have never done before. I also applied texture the grass, I used a solid green and then applied a noise filter with motion blur to achieve this. The clouds also have a ‘fluffy’ texture that was created using a soft brush.

Over all I am happy with my poster. I’m sure if I had a more extensive knowledge in photoshop and in drawing I could have produced a far more professional picture but for my skill level I’m very happy, and practice makes perfect!

first sketch

just a quick one

Heres what im thinking