A psychedelic classic
Moscoso's Carmen Mondragón poster | Rites of Spring 1967 / Neon Rose series | Carmen Mondragón postcards Victor Moscoso, Rites of Spring / The Cloud , Neon Rose series #11, 3-colour photolithograph poster, 1 April 1967. Rites of Spring is a poster by renowned American artist Victor Moscoso (b.1936) advertising a concert held on 1 April 1967 at Webbs venue in the Stockton Hotel, Stockton, east San Francisco, California. The poster advertised the appearance of pop groups The Cloud and The Plastic Explosion, now known only from their reference therein. Rites of Spring is one of the iconic Neon Rose series of posters produced by Moscoso between 1966-1968. They were distinguished by the use of vibrant colours juxtaposed so as to seemingly create a vibration or oscillation of colours on the surface of the paper. They also included an almost unintelligible font which sought to expand upon, and blend in with, the surrounding images on a sing...