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Do you take drugs to create Psychedelic art?
tag:kkartlab.in,2011-07-14:2816864:Topic:70699
2011-07-14T02:05:50.778Z
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
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<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading">No, never, is my answer!</h1>
<p>But some people do this. This form of art is called Psychedelic art. Read on to know more about it.</p>
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<p><b>Psychedelic art</b> is any kind of visual art inspired by psychedelic experiences…</p>
<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">No, never, is my answer!</h1>
<p>But some people do this. This form of art is called Psychedelic art. Read on to know more about it.</p>
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<p><b>Psychedelic art</b> is any kind of visual art inspired by psychedelic experiences<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_experiences" title="Psychedelic experiences" class="mw-redirect"></a> induced by drugs such as LSD, mescaline, and psylosybin. The word "psychedelic" means "mind manifesting". By that definition all artistic efforts to depict the inner world of the psyche may be considered "psychedelic". In common parlance "Psychedelic Art" refers above all to the art movement of the 1960's counter culture. Psychedelic visual arts were a counterpart to psychedelic rock music. Concert posters, album covers, lightshows, murals, comic books, underground newspapers and more reflected not only the kaleidoscopically swirling patterns of LSD hallucinations, but also revolutionary political, social and spiritual sentiments inspired by insights derived from these psychedelic states of consciousness.</p>
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<h2><span class="editsection"> </span><span class="mw-headline" id="Features">Features of this type of art<br/></span></h2>
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<li>Fantastic, metaphysical and surrealistic subject matter</li>
<li>Kaleidoscopic, fractal patterns</li>
<li>Bright and/or highly contrasting colors</li>
<li>Extreme depth of detail or stylization of detail. Also so called Horror style.</li>
<li>Morphing of objects and/or themes and sometimes collage</li>
<li>Phosphenes, spirals, concentric circles, diffreaction patterns, and other entopicmotifs</li>
<li>Repetition of motifs</li>
<li>Innovative typography and hand-lettering, including warping and transposition of positive and negative spaces</li>
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<h2><span class="editsection"> </span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Origins"></span>Psychedelic Art is informed by the notion that altered states of consciousness produced by psychedelic drugs are a source of artistic inspiration. The psychedelic art movement is similar to the surrealist movement in that it prescribes a mechanism for obtaining inspiration. Whereas the mechanism for surrealism is the observance of dreams, a psychedelic artist turns to drug induced hallucinations. Both movements have strong ties to important developments in science. Whereas the surrealist was fascinated by Freud's theory of the unconscious, the psychedelic artist has been literally "turned on" by LSD.</h2>
<p>The early examples of "Psychedelic Art" are literary rather than visual, although there are some examples in the Surrealist art movement.</p>
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<p>Albert Hofmann and his colleagues at Sandoz Laboratories were convinced immediately after its discovery in 1943 of the power and promise of LSD. For two decades following its discovery LSD was marketed by Sandoz as an important drug for psychological and neurological research. Hofmann saw the drug's potential for poets and artists as well, and took great interest in the German poet, Ernst Junger's psychedelic experiments.</p>
<p>Early artistic experimentation with LSD was conducted in a clinical context by Los Angeles based psychiatrist Oscar Janiger. Janiger asked a group of 50 different artists to each do a painting from life of a subject of the artist's choosing. They were subsequently asked to do the same painting while under the influence of LSD. The two paintings were compared by Janiger and also the artist. The artists almost unanimously reported LSD to be an enhancement to their creativity.</p>
<p>Ultimately it seems that psychedelics would be most warmly embraced by the American counterculture. </p>
ULTIMATE TRUTH
tag:kkartlab.in,2010-04-13:2816864:Topic:39412
2010-04-13T00:28:50.939Z
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
https://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
<div class="xg_forum" id="xg_body" style="font-weight: bold;"><div class="xg_column xg_span-16">As I sat on a rock in a cemetery of my native village<br></br>Looking at the gentle water flow in a small rivulet surrounded by a hilly cage<br></br><div class="xg_module"><div class="xg_module_body"><div class="discussion"><div class="description">And half-buried bones of the dead<br></br>I remembered all the words earlier philosophers said<br></br>The evening calm and deadly silence I faced here<br></br>Could be…</div>
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<div style="font-weight: bold;" id="xg_body" class="xg_forum"><div class="xg_column xg_span-16">As I sat on a rock in a cemetery of my native village<br/>Looking at the gentle water flow in a small rivulet surrounded by a hilly cage<br/><div class="xg_module"><div class="xg_module_body"><div class="discussion"><div class="description">And half-buried bones of the dead<br/>I remembered all the words earlier philosophers said<br/>The evening calm and deadly silence I faced here<br/>Could be the mirror image of the after life there<br/>The graves of my ancestors reminded me how short our lives were<br/>And that there was no time for the grudges to bear<br/>The
water, air, earth, nature<br/>And the surrounding atmosphere<br/>Told me I
would be a part of them soon<br/>And the brief enlightened life of mine
was certainly a boon<br/>The distant burning funeral pyres reflecting in
the faces of the living ones<br/>Asserted that we were just flickering
candles<br/>Which would one day be blown away by the roaring wind<br/>Therefore
I need not give importance to ego, pride, money and fame found<br/>Here
on earth- this life was merely a passing phase<br/>It should not be
wasted in an unimportant vanity chase<br/>It did not matter whether a
person was a king <br/>And walked in a golden ring<br/>Or a president of a
nation who greedily<br/>Acquired lots of wealth and walked on a red
carpet freely<br/>Or a beauty queen who had a luxurious milk bath<br/>And
wandered on a flower path<br/>Or a pauper whose move <br/>Was only on a
thorny pave,<br/>All that a person needed in the end was a six feet
earth-<br/>To turn into dust- I realized this Ultimate Truth.<br/><br/>Dr.
Krishna Kumari Challa<br/>Copyright© 2010<br/><br/>(Based on my painting
Ultimate Truth, please click on the picture to see it)<br/><br/><br/><br/>
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Night Frighters
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2010-04-13T00:21:27.289Z
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
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My work - Night Frighters<br></br>Description: There are a few problems that feed on the gray
matter of human beings, rob their sleep & frighten them during the<br></br>
time of rest. Life becomes a nightmare as these things take full<br></br>
control & make people their slaves. Solving these problems swiftly<br></br>
& courageously is the only solution to get rid of them….of course<br></br>
there are no real ghosts.<br></br>
<p align="justify">Although this art work looks like a spray-painted one, no…</p>
My work - Night Frighters<br/>Description: There are a few problems that feed on the gray
matter of human beings, rob their sleep & frighten them during the<br/>
time of rest. Life becomes a nightmare as these things take full<br/>
control & make people their slaves. Solving these problems swiftly<br/>
& courageously is the only solution to get rid of them….of course<br/>
there are no real ghosts.<br/>
<p align="justify">Although this art work looks like a spray-painted one, no spray was used. The artist used only her hands and a brush to paint this picture!</p>
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Ghost in the head
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2010-04-13T00:16:09.188Z
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
https://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
My work - Ghost in the head<br/>Description: Call it stress, frustration, disappointment, baseless belief, fear or
anything that makes people incapacitated. Unless & until it is<br/>
driven out of their heads, people cannot work & move ahead in their<br/>
lives.<br/>
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My work - Ghost in the head<br/>Description: Call it stress, frustration, disappointment, baseless belief, fear or
anything that makes people incapacitated. Unless & until it is<br/>
driven out of their heads, people cannot work & move ahead in their<br/>
lives.<br/>
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Vanitas vanitatum - art from the dark?
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2010-04-13T00:12:48.848Z
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
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<p>In the arts, <b>vanitas</b> is a type of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol" title="Symbol">symbolic</a> work of art especially associated with Northern European…</p>
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<p>In the arts, <b>vanitas</b> is a type of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol" title="Symbol">symbolic</a> work of art especially associated with Northern European <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_life" title="Still life">still
life</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting" title="Painting">painting</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flanders</a><br />
and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century" title="16th century">sixteenth</a><br />
and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century" title="17th <br /">century"">seventeenth centuries</a>, though also common in other places<br />
and periods. The word is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>, meaning "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emptiness" title="Emptiness">emptiness</a>"<br />
and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly<br />
life and the transient nature of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity" title="Vanity">vanity</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes" title="Ecclesiastes">Ecclesiastes</a><br />
<a href="http://bibref.hebtools.com/?book=%20Ecclesiastes&verse=1:2&src=KJV" class="external text" rel="nofollow">1:2</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a> is<br />
often quoted in conjunction with this term. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate" title="Vulgate">Vulgate</a><br />
(Latin translation of the Bible) renders the verse as <i>Vanitas<br />
vanitatum omnia vanitas</i>. The verse is translated as <i>Vanity of<br />
vanities; all is vanity</i> by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version_of_the_Bible" title="King James Version of the Bible" class="mw-redirect">King James<br />
Version of the Bible</a>, and <i>Utterly meaningless! Everything is<br />
meaningless</i> by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Version" title="New <br /">International Version"">New International Version</a> of the Bible.</p>
<p>Vanitas themes were common in medieval <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funerary_art" title="Funerary art">funerary art</a>, with most surviving examples in sculpture. By the 15th century
these could be extremely morbid and explicit, reflecting an increased<br />
obsession with death and decay also seen in the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_moriendi" title="Ars moriendi">Ars<br />
moriendi</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_Macabre" title="Danse Macabre">Danse<br />
Macabre</a></i> and the overlapping motif of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori" title="Memento mori">Memento<br />
mori</a>. From the Renaissance such motifs gradually became more<br />
indirect, and as the still-life genre became popular, found a home<br />
there. Paintings executed in the vanitas style are meant as a reminder<br />
of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty<br />
of death. They also provided a moral justification for many paintings of<br />
attractive objects.</p>
<p>Common vanitas symbols include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_%28symbolism%29" title="Skull (symbolism)">skulls</a>, which are a reminder of the certainty of death;
rotten fruit, which symbolizes decay like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing" title="Ageing">ageing</a>;<br />
bubbles, which symbolize the brevity of life and suddenness of death;<br />
smoke, watches, and hourglasses, which symbolize the brevity of life;<br />
and musical instruments, which symbolize brevity and the ephemeral<br />
nature of life. Fruit, flowers and butterflies can be interpreted in the<br />
same way, and a peeled lemon, as well as accompanying seafood was, like<br />
life, attractive to look at, but bitter to taste. There is debate among<br />
art historians as to how much, and how seriously, the vanitas theme is<br />
implied in still lifes without explicit imagery such as a skull. As in<br />
much moralistic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_painting" title="Genre painting" class="mw-redirect">genre painting</a>, the<br />
enjoyment evoked by the sensuous depiction of the subject is in a<br />
certain conflict with the moralistic message.</p>
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<p>The first movement in composer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann" title="Robert Schumann">Robert Schumann</a>'s <i>5 Pieces in a Folk Style, for Cello
and Piano, Op. 102</i>, is entitled <i>Vanitas vanitatum. Mit Humor</i>.<br />
<i><strong class="selflink">Vanitas vanitatum</strong></i> "Vanity of<br />
vanities" is also the title of an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratorio" title="Oratorio">oratorio</a><br />
written by Italian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music" title="Baroque music">Baroque</a> composer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Carissimi" title="Giacomo <br /">Carissimi"">Giacomo Carissimi</a> (1604/1605 -1674).</p>
<p>The motto of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Lampoon" title="Harvard Lampoon">Harvard Lampoon</a> magazine is <i>Vanitas</i>, a play on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard <br /">University"">Harvard University</a>'s actual motto, <i>Veritas</i>
(Truth).</p>
<p>In the video game <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts:_Birth_by_Sleep" title="Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep" class="mw-redirect">Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep</a></i>, one of the primary villains is named
Vanitas.</p>
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