The world of psychedelic art has existed since people began to take up brushes, being in a state of altered consciousness. Many believe that it reached its peak in the late 60s, at the height of the hippie movement, seeking to transfer "power to flowers." Probably this fair argument. But that doesn't mean that psychedelic art is no longer popular. Moreover, thousands of psychedelic and visionary artists around the world create amazing images using a variety of interesting techniques.
In this article, we would like to introduce some of the most prominent, in our opinion, psychedelic artists and visionary artists working in this field today. Some of these artists use digital tools so brilliantly that it's amazing how they do it. Some of these names will already be familiar to some of you, such as Alex Gray and Martin Hoffmann, while others may be lesser known, so take the time to check out their work and visit their websites to enjoy the amazing work that reflects work of the inner mind.
- Andrew (Android) Jones / Andrew (Android) Jones
Currently one of the leading digital psychedelic visionary artists in the world. Andrew works in the field of visual concept art, creating images for movies, fashion and games. Most recently he has worked on projects music festivals and groups. His artwork has been featured on the album covers of several musical performers working in the genre electronic music and saibient such as Bluetech, Beats Antique, Sporeganic and Phutureprimitive.
- Justin Guse / Justin Guse
Justin is highly skilled digital artist, creating stunning fantastic hybrids. He is also very active in creating vector art, logos, promotional materials and user interfaces. His work has a qualitatively new quality - it combines models and forms from the digital world with a more organic feeling that can be experienced during spiritual practices.
- Tokyo Aoyama / Tokio Aoyama
- Andy Thomas / Andy Thomas
Andy Thomas's work creates a visual fusion between Nature and Technology. He photographs plants, insects and cars and combines them with artificial forms in various 3D programs. The very process of creating his works is a symbol of the ongoing change by humanity of the natural world. His photographic pursuits took him to exotic locations such as Borneo, Laos, the Tasmanian rainforests and the banks of the Daintree River.
- Carey Thompson
Carey creates wildly colorful psychedelic paintings that incorporate the concepts of spirituality, molecular biology, ecology and world peace. IN last years he has worked on large sculptures and bioconstructions for music festivals and spiritual gatherings.
- Justin Bonnet / Justin Bonnet
Justin - new artist on stage, who nonetheless excels at what he manages to achieve with digital technology. His understanding of color and composition is so good that it puts him on a par with the masters of this genre. Really great work and he deserves more attention in the art world. He currently works full time to make sure he has enough money to keep his art going, so let's hope one day he has enough fans that his art can be his main job.
- George Atherton
Another outstanding young talent in the field of psychedelic paintings. George works primarily in the digital environment. After sketching concepts in his sketchbooks and vision diaries, he fully implements these concepts using Graphics tablet and digital ink. He draws inspiration from many related fields, including meditation and yoga, martial arts, lucid dreaming, comparative mythology, cultural fusion, and permaculture. Excellent artist.
- Luke Brown / Luke Brown
Luke is well known in the psychedelic community for being one of the first artists to create a complex, vibrant and colorful psychedelic canvas that blends traditional and digital technologies. His work has been showcased internationally by such prominent heavyweights in the field as Alex Grey, HR Giger, Robert Venosa and Ernst Fuchs. His art is in great demand - so much so that in recent years he had the unfortunate opportunity to witness how most his artwork, including digital files and sculptures, corny steal!
- Mario Martinez / Mario Martinez
Mario, also known as MARS-1, draws with penetrating depth. The audience is literally drawn into it. creative compositions brimming with colorful geometric and organic shapes, layered to form unique patterns and textures. His form style- vast, abstract, quasi-ethereal landscapes, which are surreal distortions of forms contained in spherical transparent bubbles.
- Fabien Jimenez / Fabien Jimenez
Fabian draws inspiration from the natural environment, mainly in the forms of insects and plants. He's just obsessed with the tiny micro-patterns that are found everywhere in nature. Their intricate forms show the grids of sacred geometry, and it is these that he tries to embody when he takes up the pencil. Although he is a highly skilled artist in the traditional sense, I think these are his recent digital work with ZBrush and Painter - and there are his real masterpieces.
- David Normal / David Normal
David started his artistic journey, designing posters for a punk band when he was 16 and then moving on to theatrical design, posters, work in 3D animation and films. Now he is focused on oil painting, through which on canvas he can express his diverse interests in psychedelia and psychedelic culture, using a large number of spiral forms that combine sexuality, religion, spirituality and death.
- Amanda Sage / Amanda Sage
Amanda Sage's art is well known to fans of psychedelic trance and sichilla because it can often be seen on international dance parties Worldwide. She was born in 1978 in Denver, Colorado. Following her destiny, the adventurer went first to Bali, then to Vienna, Austria, to study classical painting with Michael Fuchs, as a result she became and for many years remained an assistant to the artist Ernst Fuchs.
- Alex Gray / Alex Gray
Ask anyone who's their favorite psychedelic artist, and, no doubt, you will very often hear the answer - Alex Grey. Alex has an amazing ability to go beyond this world, into the world of the psychedelic experience, come back with what he sees there, and directly transfer this experience to the canvas. Like Salvador Dali, what defines and makes Alex's work stand out is not just his vivid imagination, but also his technical ability. Every inch of his paintings is meticulously crafted, and his psychedelic masterpieces have taken years and decades of finesse to create.
- Martina Hoffmann
Martina Hoffmann is an internationally renowned psychedelic visionary artist with long history creating stunning surreal and fabulous images inspired by her journeys into her own mind. Her technical skill is growing year by year, and even now her works are considered real masterpieces.
- Chris Dyer / Chris Dyer
Chris is a young Canadian-born Peruvian artist who has created an instantly recognizable individual style psychedelic art addressed to a wide range fans this genre art. There is style in his work. street graffiti, which may well be the result of his life in Peru. He is very active in getting recognition for his work around the world, and this is helped by his PositiveCreations website (a really great site), which has a store where you can buy his original work, prints, clothes and much more.
- Adam Pinson (a.k.a RedEyeArt)
I first came across Adam's work on DeviantArt, where we both regularly posted our psychedelic songs for 10 years or so. pencil drawings. I have always been and still am amazed at how clear and deep Adam's bright pencil drawings are, and I even sometimes asked for his advice, which was always more than helpful. Like Chris Dyer, Adam has also developed his own unique and idiosyncratic style that has won the hearts of many fans around the world.
- Daniel Mirante / Daniel Mirante
Daniel is an artist and author who is particularly interested in reviving a sense of the sacred in creative process and in the natural world. His paintings have evolved over the years to the point where his work now displays real confidence and superior technique. I see echoes of the works of Venossa, Dali and Fuchs in his work. For someone so young, there are no limits.
- Michael Garfield / Michael Garfield
Michael uses markers in his work to create vivid, detailed psychedelic paintings that he completes in front of live audiences at festivals and art exhibitions Worldwide. In his amazing work, the influence of illustrations from science fiction especially in the way he portrays the background. He is also an excellent musician. You can watch and listen to Michael's creations on his blog michaelgarfield.blogspot.com.
- Jonathan Solter / Jonathan Solter
Jonathan Salter is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He devotes his time to art, life and love. Illustration, stage design, live painting and wall painting are his main artistic interests. He speaks very fondly of the creative community of the Gulf and is busy re-creating his ideas and visions in painting with other like-minded people. His art is known internationally, not only in the West. You can learn more about Jonathan's amazing psychedelic art at some of the live art festivals of Cytrance and Music, or view his work online on the website.
- Cameron Gray / Cameron Gray
Cameron Gray is an award-winning Australian graphic artist and photographer. Cameron's work is regularly used to decorate music venues across Australia and can also be seen in the Museum computer art in Brooklyn, New York. In addition, one of his paintings was chosen for storage in National Library Australia, recognizing it as one of the most outstanding artists XXI century. You can view Cameron's breathtaking paintings online at his Parable Visions website.
- Kirych Luminokaya / Keerych Luminokaya
Russian artist Luminokaya creates extremely detailed and complex psychedelic digital paintings. Your eyes can wander over them for hours, taking in the details while your brain tries to process everything it can take in. She is also a talented airbrush artist and has created several psychedelic indoor posters with UV light used at various festivals and events.
- Matei Apostolescu / Matei Apostolescu
Matei Apostolescu (aka Beaucoupzero) is a freelance illustrator based in Romania. Even if you haven't heard his name before, chances are you've seen some of his unique psychedelic paintings. His psychedelic lion, cat and skull images have spread around the world and in in social networks. He uses all sorts of tools ranging from ordinary pencils, markers, airbrush and up to Wacom tablet, Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Josip Csoor / Josip Csoor
Josip Ksoor is a Serbian visionary artist who for many years tried to gain recognition for his art in his homeland. But in the end, most of his fans found out about him thanks to the Internet. His art speaks the language of the cosmos and is filled with the light of creation. Having mastered almost all forms of painting technique, he transfers his knowledge accumulated over 30 years creative work, young generation artists.
To create such psychedelic pictures, it is not at all necessary to engage in spiritual practices that expand consciousness. It's enough just to get serious about science.
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1. One of the most famous and colorful paintings of this kind are fractal images. The fractal itself is a mathematical figure that has the property of self-similarity, that is, each part of this figure is similar to this figure itself. Today there are special programs, allowing you to create beautiful images fractals using a computer.
2. Julia set
It is simply impossible to tell what a Julia set is without using clever technical mathematical terms. Without going into mathematical jungle, we can only say that this is a self-similar boundary of the set of complex numbers arranged according to a certain law. To calculate this particular photo, the formula (1 − z3 / 6) / (z − z2 / 2)2 + c was used.
3. Amazing Algae
This is what a colony of unicellular algae Volvox looks like under a microscope. The size of the entire ball, uniting from 200 to 50,000 cells, can reach up to 3 mm. Between themselves, algae, members of the colony, are fastened with special threads, the internal space of the colony is filled with mucus, and the flagella of algae are directed outward. The entire colony gets the opportunity to move in the water due to the coordinated oscillation of the flagella. Volvox have been living on Earth for 200 million years.
4. Soap bubble at 150x magnification
This photo of Gred Günther ranked 18th in October on . In a thin soapy film constant game light, so it is very difficult to take such pictures.
5. "What lies behind our nose"
This image, taken by Hong Kong radiologist Kai-hung Fung from Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, received Grand Prize on international competition scientific and engineering visualization (International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge) in 2007. This image was constructed by combining 182 CT images of the nose into one frame. The skeletal bones from the pictures were removed, and the result was a picture representing detailed structure sinuses.
6. Imitation of a sunspot
This picture was taken in National Center atmospheric research. To create it the most full information about sunspots was loaded into a super-powerful computer with a throughput of 76 teraflops (76 trillion operations per second). The picture simulates the image of processes occurring at a depth of 6000 km from the surface of the Sun.
7. Colorful tutorial
Illustration for the chapter on human sexuality from the 1972 Biology Today textbook. You can buy a picture of a psychedelic theme most often from collectors.
8. Birefringence in a quartz crystal
This effect was first discovered in Iceland spar crystals. Rays of light falling on the surface of the crystal are split into two components. In some cases, this phenomenon gives an amazingly beautiful play of color. This photo was taken by Mike Glazer of the University of Oxford.
9. Collision of subatomic particles
Scientists hope to see something like this if they do discover the Higgs boson, the existence of which was predicted in 1960 by the Scottish physicist Peter Higgs. The registration of this boson can lead to the creation of a new theory of the world.
10. Purple Himalayas
This image was taken with the ASTER radiometer installed on board the satellite. Thanks to this device, you can shoot with a resolution of 15 to 90 m in 14 spectral ranges, ranging from visible light ending with infrared. Shooting in the near infrared range allows you to create very accurate digital models of the Earth's surface, as well as maps of surface temperature, its reflectivity, etc.
11. Model "fiery heat"
This computer model of the flame was created at the University of Buffalo Center for Computational Research by Paul Dejarin and colleagues while conducting a series of fire experiments.
The term "psychedelia" literally translates from Greek as " a pure soul". Wikipedia says: psychedelia generally refers to a range of phenomena associated with the "change" and "expansion" of consciousness, studies of the stability of the psyche. Informal "science" defines psychedelia as a buzzword, cultural phenomenon, unrecognized spiritual teaching, a breakthrough in psychology and an escape from reality. But these psychedelic drawings do not fit any definition, they do not look like the works of famous artists that come across in the search results. Their paintings very rarely meet the parameters of psychedelic themes and are based more on mysticism (often Indian peyote) than on reality. Their common name- acid culture, but no more. If you call them psychedelic, then Andy Warhol's portrait of Mao or Marilyn Monroe are also psychedelic drawings, and not at all American kitsch (pop art).
I know very well several artists who try to induce certain states of consciousness in the viewer by creating mosaic canvases like mandalas. But these familiar artists are embarrassed to flaunt themselves, their real thoughts, feelings, their state of consciousness.
Meanwhile, in the history of painting there were individuals who did not hesitate to anyone. For example, Vrubel brilliantly conveyed the emotional principle in his canvases (see "Woman's Head" - a study for the Virgin and Child, "Prophet"). And look at the engravings of Edvard Munch, although Munch is more of a decadent than a madman.
Psychedelic drawings are extracted from the depths of the subconscious with simple material tools: pen and black ink. According to the technique of execution - black and white (monochrome) line art on paper. Regarding tonal and other flaws, please do not worry, because I am a professional artist and I can (intentionally) afford any flaws. What I want, I do! But don't be like me.
If you take a juicy tomato and throw it into the wall - no! why should I do this, let a twenty-two-year-old beauty run it and splash it on her white dress. The artist also does not hurt to splash himself with the joy of life in order to paint beautifully. Most likely, the one who described life in the darkest colors hid in his soul such great holiday, in comparison with which our everyday existence and the lady with the tomato are mouse fuss. Hence the school of the artist - the heavy holiday culture of the whole world.
By the way, good question to the artist: did he see beauty?
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1. Brian Pollett
Brian Pollett - twenty years old Graphic Designer, also known by the pseudonym Pixel-Pusha. As part of a new project, he decided to create paintings while in a state of drugged and alcohol intoxication. His experiment lasted twenty days. According to Paulette, during this time he tried various drugs, including cocaine. He created new works of art in his studio to the accompaniment of his favorite music.
Paulette put his reputation on the line and financial condition for this crazy project. He said that the use of psychedelics had truly changed him. According to Paulette, he has evolved into a "more open, honest, empathetic, condescending and courageous" person. “I am in awe of the beauty that constantly surrounds us,” he said.
The last "psychedelic" he tried was love. “For me, love is not limited to sex or romance,” says Paulette. “Love helps a person reach their maximum potential.”
During his experiment, Paulette said he did not use GHB (or gamma-hydroxybutyrate), psilocybin, poppers, 25I-NBOMe, or ecstasy.
2. Edmund Monciel
Edmund Monciel was born and raised in Poland. After the Nazi invasion, he was forced to hide in the attic of his brother's house and eventually became a recluse. After the end of the war, Monciel continued to lead a secluded life until his death in 1962.
As you know, he suffered from visual and auditory hallucinations - the result of his schizophrenia. After Monciel's death, more than 500 intricate paintings that he painted were discovered. graphite pencil. His drawings, which mostly depict Jesus Christ or the devil, suggest that Monciel became extremely devout while in an unsociable state.
In some of Monciel's drawings, many faces can be seen, which, most likely, symbolizes his internal struggle. Although he spent most of his life alone in the attic, his paintings are full of life and various structures.
3. Reddit user "whatafinethrowaway"
Reddit user "whatafinethrowaway" said she and her friend decided to do an artistic experiment with LSD. Its essence was that her friend had to take 200 micrograms of LSD, and then draw self-portraits for nine hours to illustrate the effect of the drug on her own brain.
After taking a dose of LSD, a friend of "whatafinethrowaway" immediately began to draw pictures, each of which she spent 15-45 minutes of her time. The drawings became more and more abstract. There was a noticeable change in the use of colors, although the artist herself claimed that she did not feel any difference.
At some point, the girl stopped drawing eyes because she "didn't want them to look at her." 4 hours and 45 minutes after the start of the experiment, she declared: "I am purple", after which she began to draw her self-portrait in purple tones. She then switched to painting fire.
Next, the artist began to draw her body, which looked like a bunch of arbitrary lines. After 9 hours and 30 minutes, "whatafinethrowaway" asked her friend to draw a normal picture. By that time, the LSD had ceased to work, but the resulting drawing still differed from the works of the artist, which she created while in normal condition.
4. Arthur Ellis
A 66-year-old artist named Arthur Ellis continues to paint everything he sees, despite losing his sight due to meningitis at the age of fifty-nine.
Ellis suffers from a disorder known as Charles Bonnet syndrome and experiences extremely vivid visual hallucinations. This syndrome usually develops in people who suffer from dementia, Parkinson's disease, or macular degeneration.
One day, Ellis began to have severe ear pain, which was caused by bacterial meningitis. Soon he was in intensive care. The doctors said that Ellis was unlikely to recover, but they were wrong.
When he came to, he was horrified to find himself standing on the edge of a huge rock. After being informed that he was blind, Ellis realized that his visions were not real, but they still interfered with his life.
Ellis was soon diagnosed with Charles Bonnet syndrome. At that time, he had already learned to cope with his visions. Not much is known about the syndrome today. It is believed that the brain of a blind person who experiences it is trying to fill in the resulting darkness with images from the past.
Ellis decided to return to his hobby of painting to try to understand the meaning of these images. He knows that his mind is playing with him. Ellis wants others to be able to see what he is experiencing.
Because Ellis can't see what he's painting, he asks people around him to tell him what they think of his paintings.
5. Oskar Dzhanigar's experiment
Oscar Janigar worked as an experimental psychiatrist at the University of California. Between 1954 and 1962 he held large-scale study LSD. He was interested to know how the drug affects the mind of a person and his creative potential.
As part of one of his experiments, Janigar asked 900 subjects to take 200 micrograms of LSD, after which he asked everyone about what they were experiencing. Then he gave 100 participants the task of drawing something, as well as writing down their feelings during the process. Their drawings are very bright and abstract. The euphoria that the subjects felt after taking a dose of LSD was eventually replaced by a normal mood.
6. David Feingold
In his youth, David Feingold had an accident, having received a serious head injury. Subsequently, he developed bipolar disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, and various cognitive impairments.
Feingold found consolation in the creation of works of art. In an interview with healing-power-of-art.org, he explained: “I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. My relatives and friends fear, shun, judge and shun me; they do not want to communicate with me because of my damaged, bipolar reputation. My work reflects feelings of helplessness, despair and anger. The people around me are afraid, and I'm afraid of them."
Feingold takes special medications to help him control his disorder.
He also supports other artists with cognitive and mental disabilities. Feingold's work may seem very strange and disturbing to some, but he uses art so that others can see into his mind.
7. Karen May Sorensen
Karen May Sorensen is an artist who has suffered from schizoaffective disorder for twenty years. WITH young years she dreamed of becoming a writer, but noticed that she could only write in 90-minute intervals.
When Karen was nineteen, her mental capacity began to change radically. She began to avoid people and behave strangely. Soon she was assigned to a psychiatric hospital. Karen stayed there for two years before doctors diagnosed her with schizoaffective disorder.
Sorensen is a self-taught artist. She maintains a blog where she posts her paintings every day, sharing her thoughts and feelings with his readers. Art helps her cope with the stresses and problems in life. It gives her the opportunity to express what she feels. Most people with mental disorders must go through an experimental phase so that a specialist can find an effective one for them. medicinal product and dosage to relieve symptoms.
Sorensen's paintings allow us to see her progress in the treatment of schizoaffective disorder.
8. Missy Douglas
Many people keep a diary to record their daily thoughts and feelings, and Missy Douglas has chosen to draw pictures instead.
This thirty-seven-year-old artist suffers from bipolar disorder. As part of the experiment, she decided not to take medication for one year in order to express on canvas what was going on in her head.
Missy was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was nineteen years old. She started her project after hiding her diagnosis from others for seventeen years.
Subsequently, Douglas wrote a book about him "2:365". She wants to show people with bipolar disorder that they are not alone. Missy also hopes that the project will help dispel the prejudice surrounding this mental illness.
The paintings created by Missy Douglas are abstract, but the theme of each can be seen and felt through the shapes, textures and colors used.
9. Louis Wayne
Louis Wayne - English artist; his most famous works are drawings of anthropomorphic cats. He painted his first cat in 1886. Over time, his animals acquired human features. Wayne was a prolific artist, producing over 100 cat paintings a year. His work has been published in many magazines and on various postcards.
In 1924, Wayne was admitted to the Springfield Psychiatric Hospital, where he continued to draw cats. As the disorder progressed, his drawings changed drastically. Cats became more abstract and experimental. His most notable work was a series of eight paintings that showed the deterioration of his condition.
Some believe that changes in style (experimenting with bright colors, more complex details and abstract models) of Wayne were caused by Asperger's syndrome, not schizophrenia.
10. Brian Lewis Saunders
Brian Lewis Saunders, a performance artist from Tennessee, also decided to experiment with drugs and self-portraits.
In 1995, he began painting self-portraits daily. As of early 2016, he has over 8,700 drawings in his collection.
Once he decided to create self-portraits for 50 days while under the influence of various drugs (cocaine, bath salts, etc.) that he received from doctors, drug addicts, neighbors and friends, as well as during treatment in psychiatric hospital.
Saunders claims that after starting to use drugs, he became lethargic and was soon diagnosed with mild brain damage. But he decided to complete the experiment to see how his self-perception changes.
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