Rick griffin
Rick Griffin , actually Richard Alden Griffin (born June 18, 1944 in Palos Verdes , California , † August 18, 1991 in Petaluma , California) was an American artist and comic artist known for his psychedelic posters.
Life
As a boy, Rick Griffin accompanied his father, an amateur archaeologist, to excavations in the American Southwest. The encounter with the ghost towns and the Indians would later influence his work. At 14 he learned to surf at Torrance Beach and began to draw. After high school he worked as an artist for Surfer Magazine , for which he invented the character Murphy . At the Chouinard Art Institute he met his future wife Ida Pfefferle, with whom he moved to San Francisco in 1966 . There he drew a poster for Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park and subsequently posters for Chet Helms ' Family Dog and for Bill Graham , who performed well-known concerts in the Avalon Ballroom , Winterland and the Fillmore Auditorium , often in San Francisco resident bands such as the Grateful Dead , Jefferson Airplane , Jimi Hendrix and other representatives of psychedelic rock . Griffin also designed record covers and a. that of Grateful Deads Aoxomoxoa , the debut of Quicksilver Messenger Service and the self-titled album by the band Mad River. With Stanley Mouse , Alton Kelley , Victor Moscoso and Wes Wilson, Rick Griffin was part of The San Francisco 5 , the leading exponents of psychedelic poster art of the late 1960s. In addition to the posters, he drew underground comics for Robert Crumbs magazine Zap and surf scene-related for Tales of the Tube .
In 1969 Griffin moved back to Southern California, became a professed Christian in the 1970s and designed covers, leaflets and posters for a Christian label. For Man he created the cover of the Slow Motion album with Alfred E. Neumann and a fish, as well as a cover for The Cult , which was only used after his death.
On August 15, 1991, Rick Griffin had a motorcycle accident in Petaluma and died three days later from his injuries.
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Rick Griffin refers - like other artists of the hippie era - in his concert posters to the advertising language of the 19th century with older fonts or calligraphic fonts designed to be illegible and decorative frame ornaments. The writing often takes up a large part of the poster, in the center there is a mounted photograph or a picture partly in comic style. A recurring motif in Griffin's posters is the representation of an Indian, e.g. B. with the poster for the Human Be-In or with Goldrush , another an eyeball like with Flying Eyball . as well as psychedelic elements such as mushrooms, monstrous beings and fantasy plants.
In 1991 the music magazine Rolling Stone voted the cover of Aoxomoxoa, designed by Rick Griffin, the eighth best album cover of all time.
proof
- ↑ a b c biography
- ↑ Murphy : Link to the picture
- ↑ a b Pow-Wow: A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In: Link to the picture
- ^ The San Francisco 5
- ↑ Goldrush: Link to the picture
- ↑ Flying Eyball: Link to the picture
- ↑ The 100 best album covers of all time; Edition: November 14, 1991
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Griffin, Rick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Griffin, Richard Alden (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist and comic book writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palos Verdes |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1991 |
| Place of death | Petaluma |