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Psychedelic

Tattoo style taking its language from 1960s psychedelic art: swirling pattern and anti-naturalistic, high-key colour.
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Low confidenceresearched

0 attested · 1 promoted1 source · T1

What the research says

styles_seed
Family
specialist
Common themes
altered consciousness
Visual traits
swirling patterns; day-glo and anti-naturalistic colour; hidden messages
Palette tendencies
anti-naturalistic, high-key, day-glo colour
Conflicts or cautions
sourced only from an art-historical definition of the 1960s poster-art movement; no tattoo-domain source was fetched, so the tattoo application is INFERENCE

Provenance

1 resolved
  • Tate

    Associates psychedelic art with the 1960s and with works referencing changed states of consciousness under LSD, naming swirling patterns, erotic imagery and hidden messages, day-glo and anti-naturalistic colour, and rock-band poster commissions out of the San Francisco hippy community. An art-historical source; it makes no claim about tattooing.

    museum · retrieved 2026-08-28

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Compatible with · 1

  • ← incomingAltered ConsciousnessThemeThin
    strength 0.75promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from themes_seed.compatible_styles of theme_altered_consciousness ('psychedelic'); styles_seed.common_themes of style_psychedelic ('altered consciousness'). Asserted independently from both ends of the relation; deduped to one edge. Confidence is the LOWER of the contributing rows, not the higher. compatible_with is symmetric; recorded once, traversable from either endpoint. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.75 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by TWO parent rows, one from each endpoint's own association column; the pack's scale reads 0.75 as 'frequent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.