[Closed] Drugs & Art.

Is it Salman Rushdie?

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Speed painting.

Quite like the Morphine IV effort.

[b]Within weeks I became lethargic and suffered mild brain damage.[/b]

That's someone serious about art.

Can't deny the influence in Art of drugs can you really.

There is a programme on soon on C4 (or5) about MDMA and its a live experiment over two days.. wonder if they get the brushes out then or just dance a bit..

Commitment!

there was a good article about it a few years back, where various commercial artists took various drugs and compared their work sober and shitfaced..

some had very good results indeed, while others didn't..

I've tried a similar experiment and fall into the latter category

"Artist"

Loose terminology, obviously.

Agreed on the Morphine effect.

Virtually every great rock song every written was compiled while the writer was off his/her head.

They don't help spiders.

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I like a bit of Ralph Steadman, i bet he was an influence.

That was genuinely fascinating.

he seems to get hold of a lot of strong antipsychotics and tranquilisers..

The DMT pic looks very perceptive.. but where's the LSD..?

How does a spider smoke a spliff?

The psylocybin one is spot on 😆

Looking at it again this AM I've having some doubts now, the Absinth one has made me suspicious. There is nothing in Absinth that could do that or ever was.

It's a load of old bollocks.
Cephalexin is an antibiotic, wht would that have any effect on your drawing?

Some really interesting pictures there but I often struggle to connect with most drug art which is static. While many artists aim to represent their experiences, and much art is beautiful, I just can't connect with the experience the artist is attempting to convey.

For me one of the very few pieces of art was from the film Renegade, where they had a few million pounds worth of computer animation at their disposal. In this ten minute clip they are able to convey the multi-dimensional space you experience, plus other non-visual experiences in consciousness such as the dissolution of soul, and the meeting of disincarnate entities (e.g. 6.50).

I'm guessing that perhaps the guy in the article smoked processed DMT or injected the chemically refined version, rather than drinking tree bark tea though..

just from his visual interpretation

Yunki

Hi - yes - I would have thought that too - it was more an observation about what makes good drug art as opposed to his ones.

The tea has any one of up to 40 or 50 different active compounds making for very different experiences.