Artistic space #76 - Alex Grey's Psychedelic Art
Today I bring you a little about the most amazing arts of all time, although it emerged in the 70s thanks to experimentation with drugs such as LSD recreationally, in a short time psychedelic art became the covers of magazines and the media did not stop talking about the subject, today I'll talk about one of its greatest exponents, this is Alex Grey.
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Psychedelic art is born as a way of connecting the mind with other states of matter, that part that is not seen, we are beings of energy and this is exactly what psychedelic art tries to express. Many of the artists who are dedicated to creating psychedelic works have aboriginal beliefs that try to connect man with nature or rather to make understand that we are one entity and that by living in a materialistic world we have broken that sacred union that we had.
Alex Grey is a painter born in New York, his beliefs vary between the metaphysical and oriental philosophy, his works are impregnated with much mysticism and spirituality, so it is not surprising that the paintings express therapeutic means of how to purify the body.
Evidently, it is better known among people who have had psychedelic experiences because they understand even more the meaning of each painting, although it is not necessary to consume any hallucinogen to understand the works of Alex Grey.
But if we discover a little the world of hallucinogens we can understand why in the art of Alex Grey is recurrent the use of networks, luminous filaments, spirals, auras, DNA, tunnels and vortices, all assumed from a fractal aesthetic and is part of the sensations and visions produced by hallucinogens such as LSD.
His works are very ingenious and full of details that can confuse where the drawing begins or ends, he plays a lot with the perspectives offered by the visions he has, there seems to be no space or time, only pure energy.
He has shared countless times with artists such as Terence Mckenna, Dr. Rick Strassman, Pablo Amaringo, Douglas Rushkoff to name a few of the top representatives of this counter-cultural movement that has been maintained since the 70s until today.
Her life companion met her in a meeting after making a hallucinogenic journey, and with whom she shares this art valuable for the understanding of human beings and their abilities.
In addition to LSD he also uses other inspirations such as Ayahuasca, a South American root with hallucinogenic properties, perhaps the strongest and most side effects, is known as the key to opening the third eye, and many parts of the world have been used for treatments of bipolarity and other disorders related to depressions and extreme anxieties.
Psychedelic art is more than aesthetic art, it is more linked to spirituality than anything else, so it is also appreciated by many but really understood by few because as in music the effect of some hallucinogenic drugs produce significant alterations at brain level and physical changes at the level of taste, hearing and the most common in the vision making the pupil dilate allowing more light and therefore effectively achieves even more distortion of the visibility of light.
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