The same applies to the illustration on the back of the Floyd album. Well, this strange character can symbolize what content you can expect - bearing in mind all the time that this is not just a "random" artistic vision of a "random" artist. The fact that this is not just an "ordinary", one of many, quickly forgotten illustration, is guided by the opinion expressed below - the last sentence of the quote.
"It's hard to believe that almost half a century has passed since the release of this album. The band, whose then spiritus movens was soon to venture too deeply into the world of drugs, with this work pushed rock into new areas of psychedelia. Experimental, sometimes trance-like music is accompanied by a photo intended to depict hallucinogenic visions.
The standard of the time was posting on the cover of the band's photos. That Pink Floyd did not yet have a clarified artistic vision, this was taken for granted (group photos on the covers from the 70s did not appear anymore). EMI chose the first photographer from the edge and then left his free hand, without paying special attention to the packaging of the record.
Vic Singh did not have too much budget, and wanted to capture the dreamy nature of music in the picture. Instead of spending money on post-production, he used a lens-prism mounted on a friend donated by a friend, Georg Harrison (both have not yet seen any use for her). The photographer recommended musicians to put on the brightest clothes possible and invite them to the studio. They came, they made a couple of joints with him and presented them. Barrett liked the project very much, he even took test photos through the lens and after the session he painted the graphics on the back cover.
For those to whom the psychiatrist notes in red the answer to the task "say what you see in the picture": above is not a mutant from radioactive swamps, but a mere outline of a group of dancing people.
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Just like the front side of the cover is to symbolize the broadly branched and "chaotic" evolution - which is one of the main principles of this process of change over time, so the reverse is an ideogram that personifies these changes in the literal sense of the word. It is contained in one symbol of the entire process that the human being underwent - all the previous developmental stages of the human being are superimposed on them, from which, as a result of evolutionary changes, modern man has "crystallized". And this is the whole "secret" of this cover, which is confirmed by all the songs on it.
