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Tag Archives: Rick Griffin
get inspired: spontaneous creationism
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) AFTER all these years of thrashing around in thrift stores looking for cool junk, i FINALLY started to look in the book section usually labeled “inspirational”. this is the section in the back (or in … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, art linkletter, basil wolverton, christian inspirational books, corita kent, Dick Sutphen, grey morrow, jack chick, james n. howard, jamie buckingham, joe orlando, johnny craig artist, mad magazine, nicky cruz, red crandall, Rich Griffin, Rick Griffin, sister corita kent, steve ditko, steve ditko newsletter, sutphen erotic poetry
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death cover
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) rolling stone magazine’s ‘death covers’ are the koolest krap ever. i think this brian jones cover from august 1969 (#39) is the first of them (perhaps you can help me on this). since then, there’s been … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Jones The Rolling Stones, fred woodward, Hunter S. Thompson, Janis Joplin, jann wenner, Jim Marshall, mike salisbury, Rich Griffin, Rick Griffin, robert kingsbury, roger black, roling stone death covers
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have pen no travel: drawing from point a to b
Draw your blessings. And these are days of yore, at the gates of Jerusalem. Competent graphic designers who can’t draw… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is a great example of a very good competent graphic designer who can’t draw worth a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged art chantry, Banksy, biblical illustration, d.l. moody, graphic design, graphic illustration, jack chick, jean louise smith, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Rick Griffin, William Blake
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sock it to them: laughing last in our discontent
Laugh-In. canned laughter and forced hip…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the mid to late 1960′s, the psychedelic underground revolution had already started to wane. it was a literal flash-in-the-pan. All of the original pioneers had morphed into varying sorts of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Art Deco design, Art Nouveau, Beardsley, dan rowan, david steinberg, dick martin, digby wolfe, Fritz Lang Metropolis, george schlatter, Hal Erickson, Henry David Thoreau, hippie movement, john alcorn, Laugh In, lena horne, Milton Glaser, paul keyes, Peter Max, Richard Nixon, Rick Griffin, robert massin, seymour chwast, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, tom smothers, walden pond, wes wilson
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still figgering it out
GettingĀ beyond psychedelic but hardly nostalgic about Victor Moscoso… Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com ): When I first discovered psychedelic posters back in the late 60′s, I was introduced to them through the work of Stanley ‘Mouse’ Miller. The first psych poster … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Roller, Alton Kelley, bauhaus josef albers, edward muybridge, Gary Panter, george hunter, Jack Kerouac, Josef Albers, Ken Kesey, Peter Max, Psychedelic Art, Rick Griffin, Robert Crumb, s. clay wilson, spain rodriguez, Stanley ''Mouse'' Miller, victor moscoso, von dutch, watts acid test, wes wilson, zap comix
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under wraps: taming the great unwashed
“Adult” humor as Art points can be something of a misnomer….. Art Chantry:This is some ‘adult’ humor. why do they call this ‘adult’, when it’s so embarrassingly juvenile and stupid that it only appeals to pre-adolescents? what’s the word for … Continue reading
PARADISE LOST
On looking back on 2009, one of the most telling signposts was the 40th anniversary of Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. The film ”Taking Woodstock” appeared to be filled with inaccuracies, stereotypes and false archetypes which folded back onto each … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Ang Lee, Artie Kornfeld, Charles Reich, George Harrison, Jerry Garcia, Jesse Helms, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Melissa Anderson, Michael Lang, Rick Griffin, Saint Anthony, Saint Augustine, Taking Woodstock, The Grateful Dead, The Incredible String Band, The Village Voice, Theodore Roszak, Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Woodstock nation, Yoko Ono
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