Artist Peter Max commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love 1967, when 75,000 "hippies" traveled to and took up residence in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district, intent on changing the world.

Date:   8/24/2017 6:37:14 PM ( 7 y ago)

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/inside-the-augustseptember-issue-of-aarp-the-magazine-300500101.html

Peter Max, artist first made famous by painting the vibrant colors of the counter-culture movement during the 1960's, now 79, continues to paint using his trademark psychedelic colors. The August/September 2017 issue of AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) magazine features a Peter Max cover (oops, I'm revealing my age!) commemorating the Summer of Love's 50th anniversary.



I have loved Max's art since I was a kid, so much so that my mother made an afghan for me when I was in high school, knitted in shades of florescent pink, yellow, and green. I still have it.



Art Journal pages: collage 6" x 8" "In Honor of Peter Max" by mayah(c)2017

I took the AARP magazine cover and created collage art of my own with it: first, two pages in my art journal and then a postcard with the "left over" collage pieces. On the back of the postcard are images from the AARP magazine article of Max's contemporary paintings.



"Peter Max: Out of this World!" collage postcard by mayah(c)2017 4" x 6"


back of postcard with images of Peter Max's contemporary art


I didn't know this!! From Peter Max's bio notes:
"The Collage Period: 1964-1967: Excited by the mid-’60s counterculture explosion, Max turned to the medium of collage to capture the zeitgeist of the era and create a mind-expanding psychedelic vision...Although collage was already established as a great technique of Modernism, the use of photographic images in kaleidoscopic patterns was pioneered by Max." http://petermax.com/bio.html



AARP Article: "Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love": http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-2017/remembering-the-summer-of-love-50th-anniversary.html

Peter Max: An American Artist "He captured the essence of the '60s with his bold, psychedelic paintings — and he's still hard at work": http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-2017/peter-max-psychedelic-art-summer-of-love.html?intcmp=AE-POL-HIST-EOA-1

Peter Max website: http://petermax.com/

About Peter Max: http://petermax.com/bio.html



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