The art in question is the album art for Day Old Belgian Blues by Kings of Leon. I could swear I’ve seen this style before. Specifically, the bold colors, the contrasting white, and that swirliness of the clouds. Particularly the swirls. I want to say it’s “psychedelic” but I’m not sure that’s the right word.
It’s reminiscent of a lot of psychedelic-y graphic design of the late 60s. I don’t have anything right in front of me, but I do some freelance design and helped a client with a major 60s/70s fixation do up her new house last year, and we pretty much immersed ourselves in the stuff. The design is a little bit post, or meta, or something; it’s not exactly right to be an authentic artifact of the 60s. But I think that’s its major influence.
I’m not sure it has a name, to answer the OP’s specific question. Not every style becomes specifically iconic enough to get an official name. I’d call it Sixties Graphic, myself.
Well, 60s psychedelia didn’t spring forth from a vacuum. Art Nouveau was a major influence on it. But actual AN is much more baroque; lots of texture and gingerbread. In other words, the AN influence is there, but several times removed through filters of psychedelia and Op.
Exactly. When I said in my first post that it wasn’t “exactly right” as a perfect replica of the styles of the time, it was the color that was most “post.”
I would say that the main influences are Pepperland Yellow Submarine (Heinz Edelman) and Python Gilliamation (Terry Gilliam) . It also has a feel of Japanese Ukiyo-e style Woodblock in line and style. For some reason I get the feeling that the artist is probably young and that he is a tattoo artist.