1. Sum up the reading in your own words in 1 paragraph: This reading was really short, but had a lot of interesting and cool information. The "hippie" subculture movement began in the 1960s in the Haight-Ashbury section in San Francisco. It was kind of like and anti-establishment movement against the older generations. Social activism helped move it along with the help of the civil rights movement, women's liberation movement, and the protest of the Vietnam war. Psychedelic posters got their name from the association with rock and roll music and psychedelic drug use. Most of the artists during this time were self-taught and mainly designed and created posters for concerts and dances. Robert Wesley "Wes" Wilson was basically the innovator of the style and created psychedelic fonts. Victor Moscoso was the only artist with a formal education in art. Peter Max did amazing work, but was mainly seen as a pop artist. Psychedelic posters were influenced by art nouveaus curves and central women figures, pop art, and op-art (optical art).
2. Name the one thing (or person) you found most interesting from the reading.
One person that I found to be really interesting was Wes Wilson. I loved learning more about him throughout the reading and when I was doing my project. I thought it was really cool how he started and created the psychedelic fonts and how he was really the innovator behind the psychedelic poster style. I also really liked his work a lot.
3. State at least one question you have after the reading or from last class.
Why did the Berkeley Free Press go out of business? Was it to radical even in those times?
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