List of art masterpieces made under the effect of psychoactive substances

[enduin]

I'd really like to write down a list of art masterpieces that are known to be made under te effect of ANY pschoactive substances, like:

author - title - substance used

I know there is plenty, but right now only very few comes to my mind... Also I'll list something that in general are connected with psychoactives.
I'd really like to get some support, eventho I don't know if people give a shit about this. Personally I'd find a comprehensive list very interesting and a very bright topic of thinking about the relationship between art and psychoactives.

I start putting down some, also titles often change stranslating to other languages, so if the title in English is wrong please correct me:

Thomas de Quincey - Confessions of an opium eater (not entirely, but many pieces are clearly opium dreams) - opium

Stevenson - Strange case of Dr. Jeckill and Mr. Hide - cocaine

Arthur Rimbaud - A season in hell - unknown, but surely not absinthe as many think, and I know this for sure. I suspect laudanum, so opium

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan - opium

Edgar Allan Poe - most of his work - alcohol

Charler Baudelaire - Artificial paradises - hashish so cannabis

Vincent Van Gogh - mosto his work - absinthe, so alcohol


And.... can't remember more! Will update as soon as I get them!

[General Anesthetic]

One that springs to mind right now, Alex Grey..

http://www.alexgrey.com/

His art is cool as fuck.
Couldn't give you any info on specific paintings, but you'd probably be able to find it.
Thinking about it now though I couldn't say for sure his art was done under the influence, but it's mostly based on mystical experiences he had on them.
I really haven't processed the info in you op cause I also don't know if any of his art is considered a masterpiece. The band Tool use him on a couple of albums though.

[ezenow]

Aldous_Huxley
Acid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley

Had his wife as he died inject him with a massive dose of lsd, way t go.



Would say alot of art / music / poetry is inspired from drug use

Opium mostly likely contributed to the creativity of many famous composers and poets, among them French composer Hector Berlioz, who took opium to relieve agonizing toothaches, and poet Coleridge, who saw the palace of Kublai Khan in a trance and sang its praise, "in a state of Reverie, caused by two grains of opium."

Warhol

Keith Richards

Freud I think coke

Dr. Thompson most things an article/short story called "Mescalito

john lennon H

Miles Davis – Heroin

Lewis Carroll – Opium

Edith Piaf morphine pills booze

Elvis uppers downers

Poor Michael Jako

byron poet opium

Thomas De Quincey opium
Edgar Allen Poe opium
Coleridge opium
Jean Cocteau opium

1. "Admiral Horatio Nelson: the Admiral suffered from an opium addiction throughout his later years in the navy.

Clive of India: another one who suffered from opium addiction.

Czar Nicholas II: The last Russian Czar spent the last two years of his reign on a cocktail of drugs. He took cocaine (for his colds), opium and morphine for his stomach complaints and he obtained hallucinogens from a herbalist. Visitors often commented on his gaunt appearance, dull eyes and his vacant smile."

2. "Other famous people who took opium included Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius who suffered with joint pains, William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Timothy Leary (d.1996), William Burroughs (b. 1916) to name but a few."

3. "Jack Black's memoir You Can't Win chronicles one man's experience both as an onlooker in the opium dens of San Francisco, and later as a "hop fiend" himself.
Jack Black was a late 19th century/early 20th century hobo, living out the dying age of the Wild West. He wrote You Can't Win, a memoir or sketched autobiography describing his days on the road and life as an honorable outlaw."

Not an "addict" but:

4. "Ben Franklin
This founding father was known to occasionally use opium recreationally."

And you already have this one:

"Some incredible drawings by the French poet/writer/artist/filmmakerJean Cocteau (1889-1963) can be found in his 1930 book, Opium: the Diary of a Cure. Cocteau went through a number of years of opium addiction, andthis book is about one of his periods of treatment.
His is clearly obsessed with the opium pipe. Lying
down was one of the traditional opium smoking
postures, because smoking tended to make you
sleepy and lethargic (http://www.jeancocteau.net/).

5. "John Keats, poet, opium addict"

6. Lenny Bruce:

"There will be quotes from some famous opium/heroin users, though it's hard to improve on Lenny Bruce's quip — "I'll die young, but it's like kissing God" — which is slated for inclusion."
Source(s):
1. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node…

2. http://www.addictinthefamily.org/chapsix…

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Liter…

4. http://www.heroinhelper.com/bored/celebr…

5. http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PFK…

6. http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:CRv…

opium:
Lord Byron, poet
Mary Shelly writer of Frankenstine
Percy Shelly poet

Lewis Carrol (supposedly he was all jacked up when he wrote Alice in Wonderland)

In victorian England most people used opium
With opium and other drugs becoming globalcommodities and the pharmaceutical industry making opiates the drugs ofmass abuse in big European and American cities, an estimated 5 out of 6 working class English families used opium on a regular basis in Victorian England. With alcoholism denounced as one of the most notable sins of the lower classes looking for an escape from a dreary existence, opium’s effects were actually preferred because it never produced the aggression or the violence that were usually associated with alcohol.

We had wars to keep opium coming into England
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/opiumwars/opiumwars1.html

Shit loads more but no time left

[Mona Lisa]

Aldous_Huxley
Acid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley

Had his wife as he died inject him with a massive dose of lsd, way t go.



Would say alot of art / music / poetry is inspired from drug use

Opium mostly likely contributed to the creativity of many famous composers and poets, among them French composer Hector Berlioz, who took opium to relieve agonizing toothaches, and poet Coleridge, who saw the palace of Kublai Khan in a trance and sang its praise, "in a state of Reverie, caused by two grains of opium."

Warhol

Keith Richards

Freud I think coke

Dr. Thompson most things an article/short story called "Mescalito

john lennon H

Miles Davis – Heroin

Lewis Carroll – Opium

Edith Piaf morphine pills booze

Elvis uppers downers

Poor Michael Jako

byron poet opium

Thomas De Quincey opium
Edgar Allen Poe opium
Coleridge opium
Jean Cocteau opium

1. "Admiral Horatio Nelson: the Admiral suffered from an opium addiction throughout his later years in the navy.

Clive of India: another one who suffered from opium addiction.

Czar Nicholas II: The last Russian Czar spent the last two years of his reign on a cocktail of drugs. He took cocaine (for his colds), opium and morphine for his stomach complaints and he obtained hallucinogens from a herbalist. Visitors often commented on his gaunt appearance, dull eyes and his vacant smile."

2. "Other famous people who took opium included Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius who suffered with joint pains, William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Timothy Leary (d.1996), William Burroughs (b. 1916) to name but a few."

3. "Jack Black's memoir You Can't Win chronicles one man's experience both as an onlooker in the opium dens of San Francisco, and later as a "hop fiend" himself.
Jack Black was a late 19th century/early 20th century hobo, living out the dying age of the Wild West. He wrote You Can't Win, a memoir or sketched autobiography describing his days on the road and life as an honorable outlaw."

Not an "addict" but:

4. "Ben Franklin
This founding father was known to occasionally use opium recreationally."

And you already have this one:

"Some incredible drawings by the French poet/writer/artist/filmmakerJean Cocteau (1889-1963) can be found in his 1930 book, Opium: the Diary of a Cure. Cocteau went through a number of years of opium addiction, andthis book is about one of his periods of treatment.
His is clearly obsessed with the opium pipe. Lying
down was one of the traditional opium smoking
postures, because smoking tended to make you
sleepy and lethargic (http://www.jeancocteau.net/).

5. "John Keats, poet, opium addict"

6. Lenny Bruce:

"There will be quotes from some famous opium/heroin users, though it's hard to improve on Lenny Bruce's quip — "I'll die young, but it's like kissing God" — which is slated for inclusion."
Source(s):
1. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node…

2. http://www.addictinthefamily.org/chapsix…

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Liter…

4. http://www.heroinhelper.com/bored/celebr…

5. http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:PFK…

6. http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:CRv…

opium:
Lord Byron, poet
Mary Shelly writer of Frankenstine
Percy Shelly poet

Lewis Carrol (supposedly he was all jacked up when he wrote Alice in Wonderland)

In victorian England most people used opium
With opium and other drugs becoming globalcommodities and the pharmaceutical industry making opiates the drugs ofmass abuse in big European and American cities, an estimated 5 out of 6 working class English families used opium on a regular basis in Victorian England. With alcoholism denounced as one of the most notable sins of the lower classes looking for an escape from a dreary existence, opium’s effects were actually preferred because it never produced the aggression or the violence that were usually associated with alcohol.

We had wars to keep opium coming into England
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/opiumwars/opiumwars1.html

Shit loads more but no time left


Very interesting thread brought up here. I can well believe that it was actually more socially acceptable to take opium in the form of laudenaum than to be drinking gin, for instance.

[enduin]

Laudanum was very expensive and available through doctors, it definitely was a rich thing. Also it surely caused less social damage than alcohol (I think alcohol is one of the worst drugs regarding social damage) like is clearly painted here
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/William_Hogarth_-_Gin_Lane.jpg

Quite some stuff ezenow, as soon as I got time I'll update the first post with the new ones you added. Btw Poe was much more into booze than opium (he considered drunkness a way to work, and amazingly he was able to actually work drunk, and with fine reasoning, etc), so I'll consider booze for him.

Alice in wonderland was one of the ones I had in mind but couldn't remember!
I'm also sure I heard of paintings done under psychoactives, but again I don't remember... at the time I was interested in the art only so didn't really listen to the drug-related part.

[GOA]

Laudanum was very expensive and available through doctors, it definitely was a rich thing. Also it surely caused less social damage than alcohol (I think alcohol is one of the worst drugs regarding social damage).

Laudanum is in fact an alcohol-based tincture, often near to 100% ethanol. The alcohol, especially at such a high concentration, greatly potentiated the effects of the opium, making it that much more sedating.

I totally agree about alcohol being an awful social tonic, but your statement was kind of contradictory. :)

[enduin]

Don't think so: laudanum was taken in a matter of drops, plus I read it was 20%, not 100% (that would be impossible btw, distilling you can't go higher than 96,etc). And even being high proof (which I don't think it was) some drops wouldn't be enough for having an effect from alcool.

[GOA]

Drops wouldn't have much effect, especially as a social tonic like you were implying. Seldomly was Laudanum associated with dropper bottles unless it was prescribed for very young children. Standardly, there was an approximate morphine concentration of 10mg/mL in Laudanum (or 100mg/mL of total opium alkaloids). The solvent used for preparing the solution was ethanol, and nothing else. In retrospect, 10mg of morphine is a fairly standard dose, and along with the 1mL of moonshine, that would get you pretty damn buzzed.

[ezenow]

Art and lsd

Hazy memory from art school library
Dali interview asked if he had taken lsd
His reply was something like
"I am lsd take me"

[mrjynxx]

Alcohol isn't an awful social tonic in my circle of friends, it's a great one. That's because we use it like it should be used. It's just a shame that it's got a bad name from the epic swathe of fucking idiots who abuse the fuck out of it. Only problem with alcohol is it exacerbates dickheadery in those dickheads already prone to it. Bastards. :mad:

[Pickled]

Art and drugs,and I'd say music go hand in hand.
Since we wanted to leave some mark upon the landscape ,from cave painting all over the world,its an I initiation into man hood.

These same patterns appear all around the world.And you could see what they were on about.I've been drawing for years under the influence of naughty bits.
After taking acid it changed my look on drawings,and with the help of base speed,I was able to draw the centres of patterns and have loads of these got down on paper,to be looked at later.
I'm well chuffed I've worked out a few simple starts to the centres of patterns( I'm bloody mad on perfection)
What were the ancients up to over here in the UK with the cup and ring markings?
I've looked into the ancients a lot,and have found the party started in southern Ireland,they used the stones around and built dozens of sites,the oldest site is apparently 9.000 BC,well old , but nothings laid out In megalith yards at all.
We used to worship the moon and had sussed out it went on a 18.6 year cycle of the major lunar standtill to minor.
And I believe we was a special Island regarded as unique,as the Goddess came to visit us,and Callanish stone circle was for the moons cycle,Julian Cope is really onto it all,and his books are amazing.Actually he's on you tube 'the modern antiqurian.The story of Avebury and walking along the ridgeway,how a White Silbury hill slowly revealed herself.
Arrh I'm on one, drugs and art but I've got to say a bit more,about Avebury got a really good book on the faces in the rock.You have to be looking at the right time of day,to see them properly.
If it wasn't a matriarchal society,why do nearly all the faces face left,instead it should be 50/50 left right,so we did respect women more than men at the start of it all.
And before I go Stonehenge had to be built at that latitude or it wouldn't of had worked properly,as a few miles north or south and the sun rise on the solstice and winter solstice sunset wouldn't of been in a exact line,and it must of been a reconised position,as in the car park are 3 massive post holes,that show we was trying to work it out in 7.000 bc ,when according to the bible( LOL) the world wasn't born.
I'm sure we were called the land of the Hyperboreans, and Apollo visited the place.

Sorry ranting away
Look at Celtic knotwork for inspired art work,i'm sure it's psychedelic.

Newgrange has a massive carved stone at it's entrance,its trippy.

I'm off before I start on the Freemasons !!! LOL