He couldn’t recall if the emotion or the point of view of “having fun” had ever entered into his past experience of making art. In 1967 Chet Helms brought the Haight Ashbury hippie and psychedelic scene to Denver, when he opened the Family Dog Denver, modeled on his Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. The music venue created a nexus for the hippie movement in the western-minded Denver, which led to serious conflicts with city leaders, parents and the police, who saw the hippie movement as dangerous. The resulting legal actions and pressure caused Helms and Bob Cohen to close the venue at the end of that year. [79] Use of the term "hippie" did not become widespread in the mass media until early 1967, after San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen began to use the term; See "Take a Hippie to Lunch Today", S.F. Chronicle, January 20, 1967, p. 37. San Francisco Chronicle, January 18, 1967 column, p. 27 The legacy of the hippie movement continues to permeate Western society. [168] In general, unmarried couples of all ages feel free to travel and live together without societal disapproval. [101] [169] Frankness regarding sexual matters has become more common, and the rights of homosexual, bisexual and transgender people, as well as people who choose not to categorize themselves at all, have expanded. [170] Religious and cultural diversity has gained greater acceptance. [171] Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen (2009), Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture, University Press of Kansas, ISBN 978-0700616336 .

It is nothing new. We have a private revolution going on. A revolution of individuality and diversity that can only be private. Upon becoming a group movement, such a revolution ends up with imitators rather than participants...It is essentially a striving for realization of one's relationship to life and other people...

Emerging from the vibrant counterculture scene of the 1960s, hippies set out to change the world with their devotion to peace, love, understanding and free expression. Let's not forget that they were highly influential, and their impact is as strong as ever in the world of creativity. Our colorful art pieces celebrating their journey will make a unique and memorable addition to your decor.

The Hippie Drawings that he started making in 1998 and continued to draw for the next couple of years were supposed to be shown in London in early 2000. But, for reasons he can’t explain, he canceled the show and instead just published the catalogue. “At least you had reproductions of the drawings. I was always thinking about the idea of ‘at least’ and ‘almost’ all the time.” If stoner drawings are the art, then joints are the muses. And while stoner drawings might lean towards surrealism more often than not, joint drawings can be just as gorgeous when they feature nothing more than linework. Passing a Joint Hand Joint Drawing Face Joint Drawing Stoner Mushroom Drawings A year to a year and a half later, A Tribe Called Quest’s We Got it from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service comes out.

When one thinks about stoner art, the first images that pop up in their minds are most likely psychedelic: a cacophonic kaleidoscope of colors and brush swirls. As gorgeous as these are, they’re just one of many forms of art being high can draw out of you. According to the hippies, LSD was the glue that held the Haight together. It was the hippie sacrament, a mind detergent capable of washing away years of social programming, a re-imprinting device, a consciousness-expander, a tool that would push us up the evolutionary ladder. Riser, George (Curator) (1998), The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change, Special Collections Department. University of Virginia Library, archived from the original on January 11, 2008 , retrieved 2008-01-21 .October Sixth Nineteen Hundred and Sixty Seven, San Francisco Diggers, October 6, 1967 , retrieved 2007-08-31

Lund, Jens; Denisoff, R. Serge (Oct–Dec 1971), "The Folk Music Revival and the Counter Culture: Contributions and Contradictions", The Journal of American Folklore, American Folklore Society, 84 (334): 394–405, doi: 10.2307/539633, JSTOR 539633 . Authors Stewart Brand and John Markoff argue that the development and popularization of personal computers and the Internet find one of their primary roots in the anti-authoritarian ethos promoted by hippie culture. [166] [176] a b Dodd, David (June 22, 1998), The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: "That's It For The Other One", University of California, Santa Cruz, archived from the original on May 14, 2008 , retrieved 2008-05-09

A common fixture in art is the tendency to draw portraits. There’s something uniquely magnetic about being able to create something in your own image. Combine that with stoner drawings and you get something truly trippy. Drawings of stoned eyes are definitely one of the most interesting ways to capture the experience of being high. Psychedelic Stoned Eyes Trippy Stoned Eyes Doodle Stoner Girl Drawings Sherwood, Seth (April 9, 2006). "A New Generation of Pilgrims Hits India's Hippie Trail". The New York Times . Retrieved 2008-09-11. On January 14, 1967, the outdoor Human Be-In organized by Michael Bowen [71] helped to popularize hippie culture across the United States, with 20,000 to 30,000 hippies gathering in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

Baer, Hans A. (2004), Toward An Integrative Medicine: Merging Alternative Therapies With Biomedicine, Rowman Altamira, pp.2–3, ISBN 0-7591-0302-X The ‘60s made psychedelia inseparable from weed culture. Thanks to that surrealism is a big part of stoner art, with trippy drawings making for some of the most intriguing art pieces in modern times. On This Day: Four Die at Rolling Stones' Altamont Concert". Findingdulcinea.com. Archived from the original on 2011-04-29 . Retrieved 2012-11-21. Following in the footsteps of the Beats, many hippies used cannabis (marijuana), considering it pleasurable and benign. They used drugs such as marijuana, LSD, magic mushrooms, and mescaline ( peyote) to gain spiritual awakening.Bissonnette, Anne (Curator) (April 12 – September 17, 2000), Revolutionizing Fashion: The Politics of Style, Kent State University Museum, archived from the original on January 18, 2008 , retrieved 2008-01-21 . a b "Ronald Creagh. Laboratoires de l'utopie. Les communautés libertaires aux États-Unis. Paris. Payot. 1983. pg. 11". Wikiwix.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04 . Retrieved 2014-02-03. Kent, Stephen A. (2001), From slogans to mantras: social protest and religious conversion in the late Vietnam war era, Syracuse University Press, ISBN 0-8156-2923-0 . Childs, Peter; Storry, Mike (1999), Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture, Taylor & Francis, p.188, ISBN 978-0-415-14726-2