LSD art
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Artists and scientists have been interested in the effect of LSD on drawing and painting since it first became available for legal use and general consumption.[1] Dr. Oscar Janiger was one of the pioneers in the field studying the relationship between LSD and creativity.[citation needed] What fascinated Janiger was that "paintings, under the influence of LSD, had some of the attributes of what looked like the work done by schizophrenics".[2] Janiger maintained that trained artists could "maintain a certain balance, riding the edge" of the LSD induced psychosis, "ride his creative Pegasus".[3] Janiger coined the term '"dry schizophrenia," where a person was able to control the surroundings and yet be "crazy" at the same time'.[4]
Many artists and their surviving relatives have kept LSD artwork from this period. One patient of Dr. Janiger, bipolar and alcoholic artist Frank Murdoch,[5] was given a controlled, experimental dose of LSD for several months as an attempt to cure his late stage alcoholism. Janiger had Murdoch paint still-lives both on and off LSD, including a Kachina doll (that he reportedly had 70 other patients also paint).[citation needed] Murdoch also continued to paint as an artist while on LSD,[6] including most of his underwater paintings.[1]
In the Netherlands, Dr. Stanislav Grof practiced "LSD Psychotherapy" in the 1980s, which included having his patients paint on LSD. Some of his artist patients painted numerous paintings while on LSD.[7]
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[edit] Psychedelic artists
- Pablo Amaringo
- Brummbaer
- Giorgio de Chirico
- Salvador Dalí
- Roger Dean
- Warren Dayton
- Ernst Fuchs
- H. R. Giger
- Alex Grey
- Rick Griffin
- John Hurford
- Alton Kelley
- Mati Klarwein
- Peter Max
- Stanley "Mouse" Miller
- Victor Moscoso
- Gilbert Shelton
- John Van Hamersveld
- Robert Williams
- Wes Wilson
- Karl Ferris
- The Fool (design collective)
[edit] References
- ^ P.G. Stafford and B.H. Golightly. [LSD — The Problem-Solving Psychedelic].
- ^ David Jay (2003). [Oscar Janiger].
- ^ David Jay (2003). [Oscar Janiger].
- ^ David Jay (2003). [Oscar Janiger].
- ^ Lynn Svensson (2006). Looking For Frank Murdoch: The LSD Experiments.
- ^ Lynn Svensson (2006). Looking For Frank Murdoch: LSD pages.
- ^ Stanislav Grof, M.D (1980). Tripscapes: LSD Art From Stan Grof's Psychedelic Epic -- LSD Psychotherapy.
