Where the 1960s "psychedelic" look came from
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- Опубликовано: 13 ноя 2019
- The hippie aesthetic owes a lot to Art Nouveau.
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When you picture hippies, you probably picture bell bottoms, long hair, and LSD. You might also think of a very specific graphic design and illustration style, seen on concert posters and album covers: curly, cloudy, barely legible lettering, trippy color combinations, and decorative meandering borders. This style was first conceived in San Francisco by a handful of designers in the late 1960s. Their job? Make posters for bands like The Byrds, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Steve Miller Band, Jimi Hendrix … all of whom were just getting their start, competing for nightly stage time at venues like the Fillmore and the Avalon.
But these designers didn’t invent that now-iconic style. In fact, they were heavily influenced by an art movement that started in the late 1800s called Art Nouveau.
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"It looked like Art Noveau on acid"
"No object was too mundane to be beautiful." Wish a lot of architecture followed that same line of thought.
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I wish this style would come back. The 60s and 70s had dope style in home decor, art and fashion.
Here I thought it was because everyone was doing acid and people just painted what they saw while trippin.
As impressed as I am with the motion graphics in these videos, I'm almost more impressed with whoever finds all these images. Such deep dives and they always look fantastic.
Missed opportunity
This aesthetic is so timeless and whimsical, yet there is still something fun and stylish about it
Sounds like we’re about due for another Art Nouveau resurgence, which I am totally down with.
Oh my god hipsters in the Victorian era excuse me
As a designer, I really appreciate this dissection of this art form, and the history lesson. Excellent video!
I grew up with this 60's funky art form. I still like to doodle lettering in this fashion. The Hippie Gen hated boring. I concur.
"Art Nouveau on acid" is by far my favorite way to describe it now
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The amount of appreciation in this video of Janis Joplin makes my heart so happy🧡✨
Revisiting this video several years later: it is still one of your best. The animations, the archival footage research, the story told at just the right depth … RUclips needs more of this.
Psychedelic visuals are always very organic, flowing and endlessly detailed, which is why art noveau always appealed to trippers - along with Ancient Minoan art, Hindu art, MesoAmerican art, non objective art like Kandinsky's and more recently the fractal images produced from chaos theory.
Those original posters are amazing. I love this art style.
I met Wes Wilson at an Art show here in Springfield MO before he passed away. He was displaying much of the original art.
This is very interesting. The 60’s and 70’s are a key influence in a lot of my art, I love the period. It’s amazing to see how Art Noveau inspired these designs.