Post by eldertree on May 14, 2017 17:17:59 GMT
I think certain art movements and tastes are associated or at least influenced from a certain type of drug. Not only drugs but also politics of the time. But this thread is about drugs.
For instance in the Rococo or Qingoco period the influential drug was opium. This produces a drowsy euphoria and a disorientating effect so you tend to produce fluid like things in slow motion:
The 20s art deco was a period of abstinence or prohibition, except for cigarettes and cigars which were allowed. Basically the associated drug is nicotine. Nicotine is a stimulant. So it's all about symmetry and geometry and clean lines:
This is taken to another level with other stimulant drugs like amphetamines and cocaine in the 80s, producing things like structural expressionism or late modernism:
In the 60s LSD was hot. So that is why there's so many circles and blobs and repeating structures, and the emergence of psychedelic art.
Deconstructivist architecture is characterised by "an absence of harmony, continuity, or symmetry" and emerged in the 80s. I think it is from smoking weed. It's like those "what if x is y and let's just rearrange everything to enlighten us" thoughts when weed smokers get high and insist everything makes sense now that they are high:
For instance in the Rococo or Qingoco period the influential drug was opium. This produces a drowsy euphoria and a disorientating effect so you tend to produce fluid like things in slow motion:
The 20s art deco was a period of abstinence or prohibition, except for cigarettes and cigars which were allowed. Basically the associated drug is nicotine. Nicotine is a stimulant. So it's all about symmetry and geometry and clean lines:
This is taken to another level with other stimulant drugs like amphetamines and cocaine in the 80s, producing things like structural expressionism or late modernism:
In the 60s LSD was hot. So that is why there's so many circles and blobs and repeating structures, and the emergence of psychedelic art.
Deconstructivist architecture is characterised by "an absence of harmony, continuity, or symmetry" and emerged in the 80s. I think it is from smoking weed. It's like those "what if x is y and let's just rearrange everything to enlighten us" thoughts when weed smokers get high and insist everything makes sense now that they are high:
