Session 10 : Revolution in the Head

Victor Moscoso

The artist I have chosen to look at is Victor Moscoso. Moscoso is a Spanish artist who is best known for his psychedelic rock posters and advertisements. His designs are very unique and uses contrasting vibrating colours to allow his work to stand out and give some depth and pop too his work. One of Moscoso’s influences was Josef Albers who was a German artist who taught at the Bauhaus, and who also taught Moscoso at Yale. In 1963 Albers published his most known book ‘Interaction of Colour’ which also shows where Moscoso took inspiration from as he also uses bright vibrant colours through his work. Moscoso was the first artist to use the photographic collage technique in his work for the rock posters. Moscoso had designed artwork for many different artists including Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and much more. His art has also been used on billboards, merchandise, animated commercials and radio stations. Moscoso was awarded the American Institute of Graphic arts medal in 2018.