Represented by the World War II of the 20th century for people suspected of modernization for good reasons. The cold war, environmental pollution, resource depletion, the nuclear threat, population expansion and so on composing a gloomy picture of the 20th century. In 1960s-1970s, people’s minds are no longer repressed and many different styles of the painting appeared.To meet the needs of mass consumption, postmodern art appear with no certainty, no sense of depth, and the latter. (J. F. Lyotard)

The first picture is Miller Blues Band from Victor Moscoso, he was the minority people who accepted formal art education. He transformed the abstract harmony of color theory into a hallucinogenic contradiction. I like the lines he used to surround the characters and text. It also has many different changes between the line, as the lines near the character are breadth but the one far from is thin. The color overlay lets the poster design some color block and the line bring the thickness.

The second thing I like is the color he chose, his color always called as psychedelic color. Because the color is bright and dizzying so we can just enjoy the visual stimuli from the poster. Also, the character is a real people from the photography. Color is superimposed on each other such as which color is on top, which in the next, the visual perception of the audience is precisely taken care of, and several high purity colors to achieve balance state on the vision. For example,  the woman in the poster has two different colors, but these color are similar and make the character color as a whole thing and stand out on the poster. It also is a combination of two different texture, but also make the photograph turn into the plane. And his paintings greatly influence the aesthetic style of the 1960s and 1970s.

The postmodern artworks always bring the reader a lighthearted feel and make people think it is sensibility. People don’t need to think what is the meaning of these posters. Because they are a symbol of freedom, the postmodern is the product people doubt the reality after time accumulates. 

Lyotard, J. F. (1984). The postmodern condition: A report on knowledge (Vol. 10). U of Minnesota Press.

Strange Days in Victor Moscoso’s 1960s and ’70s Psychedelic Drawings