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During this time period, not only was drugs, clothing, sex and drugs important to this psychedelic lifestyle, but art was becoming a true pat of history. When you think hippies art what do you think about? I see bright colorful swirls with blocky lettering, usually stretching across the whole page. Well, that's exactly right. Hippie art has its own specific genre. Sally Tomlinson says that most of the art posters created were similar to posters that were used to promote boxing matches. They were large rectangular posters where the message was pretty much straightforward. Some may say that actual design is ineligible but to the hippies that was their art work. Tomlinson uses "doodling" as a way of describing it and I think there's not better way to describe it. The way we see art today can be interpreted in many different ways. It depends on the person and what they may think or feel from the art. But the hippies had a different approach. Their work was based off of promoting a certain band, or event. Most of the work had cool psychedelic colors swirling around with huge block lettering. Not to much, and not to little was said about the event or band, it was just enough. Like the picture I included above. It says what bands are going to be there, where the concert is and what it is called. It includes some psychedelic work and the funky block lettering.

Honestly, I never really liked those kind of pictures. Maybe cause I wasn't ever really into that "scene" so much, but after this class I can appreciate more of their art work and understand where they were coming from now that I know more about what the hippies were all about. Yeah, drugs and their trips had a lot to do with the creation or appreciation of the art back then, but now it has become an art form that is recognizable just by the certain lettering that is used and certain hippie characteristics that it may include.