Psychedelic

The artist named Antoni Gaudi who is very well known for his outstanding and flamboyant architecture  really seemed to link back again to this hippy movement in the 60's. His work displays aspects of modernism aswell as a really psychedelic feel.

Psychedelic

It was this artist (Alphonse Mucha) aswell as other artists involved in the Art Nouveau movement that triggered off my urge to compare between art, music and trends for the current project. As soon as I saw Mucha's work I thought of the Hippie Youth movement which came about in the 1960-1970's. This Hippie subcultural movement developed in the United States in the 1960's and spread around the world from then on. It consisted of people being harmonious with nature, people living communally  people taking part in artistic experimentation (mainly in music) and the use of recreational drugs. Most likely because of these recreational drugs this era resembled psychedelic colours, flowing patterns and tie dye material. 

It then becomes clear that the people who developed this Youth Hippie Movement were clearly inspired by the floral, flowing paintings created by Alphonse Mucha and other artists involved in the Art Nouveau art movement of 1890-1910. Maybe they even saw all of his beautiful paintings and conjured up this idea of world peace, happiness, floral decorations and harmonious music. After realising this trend and link between Art Nouveau and the hippy society I also found similar links in art but in the form of architecture.