The Move and Pink Floyd at UFO
Poster
1967 (designed)
1967 (designed)
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Psychedelic poster. Pink through orange to yellow rainbow lettering with gold on white ground. Image of an upside down woman with butterfly wings.
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Title | The Move and Pink Floyd at UFO (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Silkscreen screenprint |
Brief description | Psychedelic poster by Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, otherwise known as Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, for The Move and Pink Floyd at UFO. Great Britain, 1967. |
Physical description | Psychedelic poster. Pink through orange to yellow rainbow lettering with gold on white ground. Image of an upside down woman with butterfly wings. |
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Gallery label | "Michael English (born 1942) and Nigel Waymouth (born 1941)
The Move. Poster promoting The Move and Pink Floyd at UFO, 26 May and 2nd June
1967
Screenprint
E.1708-1991
This is the first example of Hapshash using rainbow inking.
Richard Neville in 1970 wrote 'In London in 1967, every Friday night until dawn, shimmering flower children, splashed with Day-Glo, spotted with marcasite, clad in diaphanous revamped negligées, tarted-up Grenadier Guards jackets, in tat and glitter from the markets of Asia and the stalls of Portobello Road, in everything as long as it was beautiful, tripped inside a monstrous basement or queued outside, bedazzling the passing traffic. It was UFO...'"
Text by Julia Bigham |
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Bibliographic reference | Christoph Grunberg, ed. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era London: Tate, 2005. 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ISBN: 1854375954. |
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Accession number | E.1708-1991 |
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Record created | November 15, 2006 |
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