Psychedelic artists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Chapters: Barney Bubbles, Peter Max, Martin Sharp, Alex Grey, Keiichi Tanaami, Karl Ferris, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, Vaughn Bodé, Mati Klarwein, Laurence Caruana, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, Dave Sheridan, Stanley Mouse, The Fool, Bob Masse, Rick Griffin, Warren Dayton, Gilbert Shelton, John Coulthart, Jim Franklin, Ellis D Fogg, Alton Kelley, Fred Schrier, John Van Hamersveld, Amanda Sage, Pedro Bell, Robert Venosa, Wes Wilson, Mark Boyle, Ade Shaw, John Hurford, Victor Moscoso, Bob Walker. Excerpt: Martin Sharp (born 1942) is an Australian artist, underground cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker. Sharp has made contributions to Australian and international culture since the early 60s, and is hailed as Australia's foremost pop artist. His famous psychedelic posters of Bob Dylan, Donovan and others, rank as classics of the genre, alongside the work of Rick Griffin, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat and Milton Glaser. His covers, cartoons and illustrations were a central feature of Oz magazine, both in Australia and in London. Martin co-wrote one of Cream's most famous songs, "Tales of Brave Ulysses", created the cover art for Cream's Disraeli Gears album, and in the 1970s, he became a champion of singer Tiny Tim, and of Sydney's embattled Luna Park. Martin was born in Sydney in 1942, and was educated at Cranbrook private school, where one of his teachers was the noted artist Justin O'Brien. In 1960, Martin enrolled at the National Art School at East Sydney, where he began his artistic career contributing to the short-lived student magazine The Arty Wild Oat, along with fellow artists Garry Shead and John Firth Smith. He also submitted cartoons to The Bulletin. In 1961, he enrolled for two terms in Architecture at Sydney University before returning to the NAS. In late 1963 or early 1964 Martin met Richard Neville, editor of the University of NSW student magazine Tharunka, and Richard Walsh, editor of its Sydney University counterpart Honi Soit. Both wanted to publish their own "magazine of dissent" and they asked Sharp and Shead to become contributors. The magazine was dubbed Oz. From 1963-65 Martin was its art director and a major contributor. Sydney Oz hit the streets on April Fool's Day, 1963. Its irreverent attitude was in the tradition of the student newspapers, but it satirical and topical coverage of local and national issues and people developed a national profile, and made it a target for "the Establishment", and soon a prominent casualty of the so-called