{"id":1648,"date":"2013-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/2013\/12\/02\/goodbye-martin-sharp\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:03:30","slug":"goodbye-martin-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/goodbye-martin-sharp\/","title":{"rendered":"GOODBYE MARTIN SHARP, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Goodbye Martin Sharp<\/strong>. One of our myths of the Sixties&#8217; psychedelic art scene just passed away. Martin Sharp&#8217;s true icons have indelibly marked the collective imagination of an era, with his posters of <strong>Bob Dylan <\/strong>(Sharp was a big fan of Mr D),<strong> Donovan<\/strong>,<strong> Hendrix<\/strong>, <strong>Cream<\/strong>, <strong>Van Gogh<\/strong>, the art direction of the controversial underground zine<strong><em> Oz<\/em><\/strong> and the cover of <strong>Richard Neville<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong><em>Play Power<\/em><\/strong> book. Of the psychedelic era he said: &#8220;There was a feeling of optimism, the possibility of the world working. That was definitely part of the experience&#8221;. A sense of freedom that was quite evident, with bold vitality and originality, in his designs and day-glo colors.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Australia, Sharp moved to London in the mid-Sixties. His <strong><em>Hendrix Explosion<\/em><\/strong> poster (inspired by a picture by <strong>Linda McCartney<\/strong>) launched him at the top of the alternative art scene of the time. He soon befriended <strong>Eric Clapton <\/strong>and got to contribute the lyrics to the song <strong><em>Tales Of Brave Ulysses<\/em><\/strong> for <strong>Cream<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong><em>Disraeli Gears<\/em><\/strong> album whose cover he also designed. Back to Australia in the Seventies, he generally kept a low profile rarely leaving the family home while maintaining his wide circle of friends in the arts world. You can always find a selection of his works at our gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye Martin Sharp. One of our myths of the Sixties\u2019 psychedelic art scene just passed away. Martin Sharp\u2019s true <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39992,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions\/39992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallofsoundgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}