Robert Wesley Wilson or better known as Wes Wilson is a psychedelic artist born on July 15, 1937 in Sacramento, California, and passed away recently on January 24, 2020. He was called the father of 1960s rock concert posters. This was because of his knack for translating the sights and sounds from the culture into iconography.
In his childhood, he had a love for the natural world along with an interest in different artistic media. In post-secondary, Wes was taken in by these earlier childhood interests. For a short time he studied forestry and horticulture before moving on to philosophy. Then in the later parts of the 1960s, Wes had come to take inspiration from the avant-garde San Francisco neighbourhoods, and eventually came to creating art for people.
Wes’s style is drawn from the art nouveau masters, an understanding of promotional art that let him flip it inside out, lines converging into each other, his usage of colours inspired by concerts, and letters filling every nook and cranny.
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