Editing Psychedelia (section)

==Visual art==
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[[File:The Fool guitar (replica).jpg|thumb|upright|Replica of [[Eric Clapton]]'s "[[The Fool (guitar)|The Fool]]", a guitar design which became symbolic of the [[psychedelic era]]]]

Advances in printing and photographic technology in the 1960s saw the traditional [[lithography]] printing techniques rapidly superseded by the [[offset printing]] system. This and other technical and industrial innovations gave young artists access to exciting new graphic techniques and media, including photographic and mixed media collage, metallic foils, and vivid new fluorescent "[[DayGlo]]" inks. This enabled them to explore innovative new illustrative styles including highly distorted visuals, cartoons, and lurid colors and full [[spectrum]]s to evoke a sense of altered consciousness; many works also featured idiosyncratic and complex new fonts and lettering styles (most notably in the work of San Francisco-based poster artist Rick Griffin). Many artists in the late 1960s and early 1970s attempted to illustrate the psychedelic experience in [[paintings]], [[drawings]], [[illustration]]s, and other forms of graphic design.

The [[Counterculture of the 1960s|counterculture]] music scene frequently used psychedelic designs on posters during the [[Summer of Love]], leading to a popularization of the style. The most productive and influential centre of psychedelic art in the late 1960s was [[San Francisco]]; a scene driven in large measure by the patronage of the popular local music venues of the day like the [[Avalon Ballroom]] and [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]]'s [[Fillmore West]], which regularly commissioned young local artists like [[Robert Crumb]], [[Stanley Mouse]], [[Rick Griffin]] and others. They produced a wealth of distinctive psychedelic promotional [[poster]]s and handbills for concerts that featured emerging psychedelic bands like [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]],<ref>{{cite web| publisher=[[AllMusic]]| author=Mark Deming| title=Big Brother & the Holding Company: ''Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills''| url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sex-dope-cheap-thrills-mw0003211577| access-date=10 March 2022}}</ref> [[The Grateful Dead]] and [[Jefferson Airplane]]. Many of these works are now regarded as classics of the poster genre, and original items by these artists command high prices on the collector market today.

Contemporary with the burgeoning San Francisco scene, a smaller but equally creative psychedelic art movement emerged in London, led by expatriate Australian pop artist [[Martin Sharp]], who created many striking psychedelic posters and illustrations for the influential underground publication [[Oz magazine]], as well as the famous album covers for the [[Cream (band)|Cream]] albums ''[[Disraeli Gears]]'' and ''[[Wheels of Fire]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Organ|first=Michael|date=2018-07-03|title=Confrontational continuum: modernism and the psychedelic art of Martin Sharp|url=https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1710&context=asdpapers|journal=The Sixties|volume=11|issue=2|pages=156–182|doi=10.1080/17541328.2018.1532169|s2cid=149680436 |issn=1754-1328|url-access=|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=}}</ref>

Other prominent London practitioners of the style included: design duo [[Hapshash and the Coloured Coat]], whose work included numerous famous posters, as well as psychedelic "makeovers" on a piano for [[Paul McCartney]] and a car for doomed [[Guinness]] heir [[Tara Browne]], and design collective [[The Fool (design collective)|The Fool]], who created clothes and album art for several leading UK bands including [[The Beatles]], Cream, and [[The Move]]. The Beatles loved psychedelic designs on their albums, and designer group called The Fool created psychedelic design, art, paint at the short-lived [[Apple Boutique]] (1967–1968) in Baker St, London.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.strawberrywalrus.com/applestore.html |title=Beatles APPLE BOUTIQUE |access-date=2019-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060818095857/http://www.strawberrywalrus.com/applestore.html |archive-date=2006-08-18 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:Janis Joplin's Porsche - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2014-12-30 11.13.10 by Sam Howzit).jpg|thumb|right|Joplin's [[Porsche 356]]C in "[[Summer of Love]] – Art of the Psychedelic Era" at the [[Whitney Museum]] in New York City]]

Blues rock singer Janis Joplin had a psychedelic car, a Porsche 356.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-10-05 |title=Janis Joplin's Porsche |url=https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/christophorus/porsche-356-sc-janis-joplin-12303.html |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=Porsche Newsroom |language=en}}</ref> The trend also extended to motor vehicles. The earliest, and perhaps most famous of all psychedelic vehicles was the famous "[[Further (bus)|Further]]" bus, driven by [[Ken Kesey]] and [[The Merry Pranksters]], which was painted inside and out in 1964 with bold psychedelic designs (although these were executed in primary colours, since the DayGlo colours that soon became ''de rigueur'' were then not widely available).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Institution |first=Smithsonian |title=Ken Kesey and the Pranksters aboard his bus, "Further", in the Great Bus Race {{!}} Smithsonian Institution |url=https://www.si.edu/object/ken-kesey-and-pranksters-aboard-his-bus-further-great-bus-race:nmah_892568 |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=Smithsonian Institution |language=en}}</ref> Another very famous example is [[John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls-Royce]] – originally black, he had it repainted in 1967 in a vivid psychedelic gypsy caravan style, prompting bandmate George Harrison to have his [[Mini Cooper]] similarly repainted with logos and devices that reflected his burgeoning interest in Indian spirituality.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peek |first=Jeff |date=2016-04-26 |title=George Harrison's psychedelic Mini made a big impression |url=https://www.hagerty.com/media/archived/george-harrison-mini/#:~:text=George%20Harrison,%20considered%20the%20%E2%80%9Cquiet,its%2050th%20anniversary%20in%202009. |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=Hagerty Media |language=en-US}}</ref>