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Design as virus #4

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Metamorphosis by Bridget Riley (1964).

Mademoiselle ad (1965).
From this Flickr set. Thanks to Aristan for the tip.

Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets From The WEA Vaults (2004).
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Design as virus #3
• Design as virus #2
• Design as virus #1
• New Bridget Riley

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‘Father of LSD’ dies aged 102

‘Father of LSD’ dies aged 102

‘Father of LSD’ dies aged 102
| Albert Hofmann, RIP.

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Forever Changes by Jim Lambie

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Nothing to do with the late Arthur Lee, well…not directly anyway. I love the contrast between the dizzying floor design (created with vinyl tape) and the rather dour Corinthian columns in Jim Lambie’s installation. I believe the Flickr photo above shows the work being prepared.
Forever Changes, which also includes some of the artist’s playful sculptures, […]

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Yayoi Kusama

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Infinity Mirrored Room—Love Forever (1994).
“It is not controversial to describe Yayoi Kusama as Japan’s greatest living artist,” says Hannah Duguid in The Independent. I made a post about Kusama’s artworks in 2006 and now her work is in exhibition at the Victoria Miro gallery, London.
For this exhibition, revered Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has conceived […]

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Yoshitaka Amano in Berlin

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Deva-loka (2007).
Big new paintings by one of my favourite Japanese artists at Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, until February 29, 2008. The wild details in Deva-loka are completely lost at this size but there’s a larger version on Amano’s site.

Creation (2007).
These works are being sold as fine art but Amano’s reputation rests upon his commercial […]

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Happy birthday, Mr Hofmann

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Albert Hofmann by Alex Grey.
Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD, 102 years old today. Last month Scientific American reported that hallucinogenic drugs are once again being considered as a way to treat psychiatric disorders.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The art of LSD
• The trip goes on
• Albert Hofmann
• Hep cats

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The art of Sadao Hasegawa, 1945–1999

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(No title) from Sadao Hasegawa 01 (1990).
It’s good to be able to finish the year with another artistic discovery. I’d not come across Sadao Hasegawa’s work before but this page has an extensive (complete?) selection of his paintings and drawings. This is gay erotica with a twist, being Japanese in origin yet incorporating figures […]

Posted in {painting}, {psychedelia}, {gay}, {art} | 5 comments »

Paisley patterns

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Kirking shawl design (1850).
December is a month when I normally shun the secondhand shops so as to avoid being taken for a cheapskate trying to save money while Christmas shopping. Sometimes it pays to break your own rules, however, as with this discovery, Paisley Patterns: A Design Source Book (Studio Editions, 1989) by Valerie […]

Posted in {books}, {psychedelia}, {design} | 2 comments »

Visions and the art of Nick Hyde

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Cover painting: Holy Grove by Gage Taylor (1975).
Book purchase of the week was this American collection of what we have to call “hippy art” (or “California Visionary Art”, as its creators preferred) published by Pomegranate Publications in 1977. I’d seen this circa 1979 and many of the pictures inside were used by Omni Magazine […]

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From LSD to OSX

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A few servings of iTunes jelly.
I’ve spent the past week or so enjoying the delights of Leopard, the 10.5 iteration of Apple’s OS X operating system, but have only just noticed the new Visualizer patterns in the latest version of iTunes. I don’t use the Visualizer much, especially since the introduction of Front Row, Apple’s […]

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