Marrakesh Fabric by Jyoti Bhomik for Jonelle. Approx 2metres of unused fabric. Capture the 1960’s Flower Power Era.
Pop Art in painting was at its height in the mid 60s, Roy Lichtenstein reinterpreted the strip cartoon, Andy Warhol’s factory is churning out Marilyn Monroe prints. Driven by the explosion of consumerism and mass market advertising the Pop aesthetic was used to reinterpret a huge range of classic, folk and ethnic sources. As we headed to the “Summer of Love” these images were the perfect visual for the music industry, first concert posters then album covers, mixed with psychedelia, the kaleidoscopic chaos helped create a state of mind, of unbridled freedom. We marched over the ashes of conformity and materialism to a Blakean city (San Francisco), stirred by the anthems and fearless charisma of Haight residents Grace Slick and Janis Joplin. Did we find Jerusalem or was it as George said “just a bunch of pimply kids on drugs”. Vietnam and the Bomb cast a shadow over the late 60’s and the Summer of Love morphed into Flower Power, the West Coast arrived on our shores but we were off on the Hippie Trail heading for exotic escape. In the summer sun of a pub garden Procol Harum’s A Whiter Shade of Pale gave us directions, Morocco, Turkey, India and Afghanistan all promised authentic life.
Peace and Love.
120cm wide x 200cm
Marrakesh Fabric by Jyoti Bhomik for Jonelle. Approx 2metres of unused fabric. Capture the 1960’s Flower Power Era.
Pop Art in painting was at its height in the mid 60s, Roy Lichtenstein reinterpreted the strip cartoon, Andy Warhol’s factory is churning out Marilyn Monroe prints. Driven by the explosion of consumerism and mass market advertising the Pop aesthetic was used to reinterpret a huge range of classic, folk and ethnic sources. As we headed to the “Summer of Love” these images were the perfect visual for the music industry, first concert posters then album covers, mixed with psychedelia, the kaleidoscopic chaos helped create a state of mind, of unbridled freedom. We marched over the ashes of conformity and materialism to a Blakean city (San Francisco), stirred by the anthems and fearless charisma of Haight residents Grace Slick and Janis Joplin. Did we find Jerusalem or was it as George said “just a bunch of pimply kids on drugs”. Vietnam and the Bomb cast a shadow over the late 60’s and the Summer of Love morphed into Flower Power, the West Coast arrived on our shores but we were off on the Hippie Trail heading for exotic escape. In the summer sun of a pub garden Procol Harum’s A Whiter Shade of Pale gave us directions, Morocco, Turkey, India and Afghanistan all promised authentic life.
Peace and Love.
120cm wide x 200cm
