{"id":200,"date":"2019-02-26T14:35:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/?p=200"},"modified":"2019-02-26T14:35:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:35:49","slug":"1960-1970-departures-and-rumblings-victor-moscoso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/2019\/02\/26\/1960-1970-departures-and-rumblings-victor-moscoso\/","title":{"rendered":"1960-1970 Departures and Rumblings: Victor Moscoso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Moscoso is a classically trained artist who applied an academic perspective to the psychedelic era. He studied at Yale with Joseph Albers whose theories on the use of color were a major influence in Moscoso\u2019s later work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.comicvine.com\/uploads\/original\/7\/71975\/4016597-victor-moscoso.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>Victor Moscoso, 2006<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of his works have very vibrant colours and almost illegible &#8220;psychedelic&#8221; type. He seems to have thought of type as a design element, not just a way of communicating words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/media\/W1siZiIsIjMzOTQ1OSJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MjAwMFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=130e9e888cfeae65\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>Young Bloods, The Youngbloods, The Other Half, Mad River, 1967<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--4oRrK6idkE\/UvwwrdvI07I\/AAAAAAAAAMw\/AN3tw-LAfVc\/s1600\/570a_lg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>The Cloud, 1967<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The vibrant colours and symmetrical lines create a pattern which creates an optical illusion of depth and movement. &#8220;The Miller Blues Band&#8221; is one of my personal favourites because of how well Moscoso managed to interpret the type and the figure into one beautiful piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/6d\/94\/1d\/6d941da508da132197f718fb909b59d6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>The Miller Blues Band, 1967<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing that I love about his style is the way he uses photography in his works. Given Moscoso&#8217;s artistic sophistication, it is not surprising that he was the first of the rock poster artists to use photographic collage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/media\/W1siZiIsIjMzOTQ1MiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MjAwMFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=452ee8991433d51d\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>Matrix\/ San Francisco\u00a0, 1967<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/media\/W1siZiIsIjMzOTQ0OSJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MjAwMFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=c224936f7ad90f3a\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>Big Brother and the Holding Company, 1967<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/artists\/victor-moscoso\/\">http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/artists\/victor-moscoso\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/artists\/4117?=undefined&amp;page=1&amp;direction=\">https:\/\/www.moma.org\/artists\/4117?=undefined&amp;page=1&amp;direction=<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>www.victormoscoso.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Moscoso is a classically trained artist who applied an academic perspective to the psychedelic era. He studied at Yale with Joseph Albers whose theories on the use of color were a major influence in Moscoso\u2019s later work. Most of his works have very vibrant colours and almost illegible &#8220;psychedelic&#8221; type. He seems to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7855,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-132-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}