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List Of Space Artists
This list of space artists includes artists who produce space art, art and music about space and spaceflight and/or have artwork in space. Artists *Howard Russell Butler (1856-1934) *Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986) *Paul Calle (1929–2010) *Ann Druyan (born 1949) *Michael Carroll (space artist), Michael Carroll *Jack Coggins *Vincent Di Fate (born 1945) *David Bowie (1947-2016) *Don Davis (artist), Don Davis (born 1952) *Joe Davis (artist), Joe Davis (born 1950) *Don Dixon (artist), Don Dixon (born 1951) *Bob Eggleton (born 1960) *Danny Flynn (artist), Danny Flynn *David A. Hardy (born 1936) *Joby Harris (born 1975) *William Kenneth Hartmann, William K. Hartmann (born 1939) *Jon Lomberg (born 1948) *Robert McCall (artist), Robert McCall (Bob McCall) (1919–2010) *Syd Mead (1933–2019) *Ron Miller (artist and author), Ron Miller (born 1947) *Theophile Moreux *Nahum (Artist, Musician), Nahum (born 1979) *Amy Karle (born 1980) *Andreas Nottebohm (born 1944) *Ludek Pesek (1919� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneer 10
''Pioneer 10'' (originally designated Pioneer F) is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. ''Pioneer 10'' became the first of five artificial objects to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System. This space exploration project was conducted by the NASA Ames Research Center in California. The space probe was manufactured by TRW Inc. ''Pioneer 10'' was assembled around a hexagonal bus with a diameter parabolic dish high-gain antenna, and the spacecraft was spin stabilized around the axis of the antenna. Its electric power was supplied by four radioisotope thermoelectric generators that provided a combined 155 watts at launch. It was launched on March 3, 1972, at 01:49:00 UTC (March 2 local time), by an Atlas-Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Between July 15, 1972, and February 15, 1973, it became the first spacecraft to traverse the asteroid belt. Photography of Jupiter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Flynn (artist)
Danny Flynn (born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire) is an English fantasy and science fiction artist. Flynn attended Saint Augustine Webster Primary School and High Ridge Comprehensive in his birth town Scunthorpe, and took a degree in Illustration at Kingston University. Since the mid-1980s, Flynn has illustrated and designed novel covers, some for well-known authors including Frederik Pohl, Greg Bear, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. He also worked for game companies Electronic Arts and Traveller's Tales. See also *List of space artists This list of space artists includes artists who produce space art, art and music about space and spaceflight and/or have artwork in space. Artists *Howard Russell Butler (1856-1934) *Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986) *Paul Calle (1929–2010) *A ... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Flynn, Danny Living people Alumni of Kingston University Artists from Lincolnshire English fantasy writers Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Pietronigro
Frank Pietronigro is an American interdisciplinary artist, educator and author. He was the first artist to create "drift paintings", where his body floated within a three-dimensional painting that he created in zero gravity aboard NASA's KC135 aircraft. He is a former Associate Fellow at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts. Education Pietronigro studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, the Multimedia Studies Program, San Francisco State University, and he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts, from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996. Career "Drift painting" project On April 4, 1998, Pietronigro flew from NASA's Johnson Space Center, aboard a KC135 turbojet, to create ‘drift paintings’ as the artist's body floated within the 3-D kinetic painting space facilitated by parabolic flight and microgravity. He appropriated modernist painting conventions using similar techniques em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Nottebohm
Andreas Nottebohm (born October 13, 1944) is an American / German artist who is considered the key innovator of Metal Art, and associated with Op art, visionary art, and space art. Life Born and raised in Eisenach, East Germany, he moved to Munich, West Germany, as a teenager. From 1965 to 1969, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under surrealist painter Mac Zimmermann. In 1968, he studied etching at Johnny Friedlaender's workshop in Paris, France. From 1971 to 1974, he studied lithography in Salzburg, Austria. He returned to Munich in 1974. During the early 1970s, he first experimented with using metal as a canvas by utilizing used etching plates for his paintings. Nottebohm first visited the United States for a one-man exhibition in 1978. After traveling throughout the United States, he chose to make the San Francisco Bay Area his home. Career Andreas Nottebohm first visited the United States for a one-man show with Galerie Ernst Hilger iennaat WASH-A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Karle
Amy Karle (born 1980) is an American artist, bioartist, and futurist whose work focuses on the relationship between technology and humanity, specifically how technology and biotechnology impact health, humanity, society, evolution, and the future. Karle combines science and technology with art and is known for using living tissue in her work. In 2018, Karle was an Artist Diplomat sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, for a cultural exchange initiative in conjunction with the Copernicus Science Center in Poland where she led workshops focusing on women's empowerment in STEAM fields. In 2019, she was named one of the BBC's 100 women. Personal life Karle was born in New York in 1980 and grew up in Endicott, outside the upstate city of Binghamton. Her mother was a biochemist and her father was a pharmacist and Karle has said she "grew up in the lab and in the pharmacy". Karle is an alumnus of the School of Art and Design at Alfred University and Cornell University whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahum (Artist, Musician)
Nahum (born in 1979 in Mexico City, Mexico) is an artist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, performer and artistic director who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His work combines outer space technologies, illusionism, and hypnosis to create alternative and extreme perspectives of human experience. He is also known under the names of Nahum Mantra and Nahum Romero Zamora. Biography Nahum "is the new generation of young professional artists creating new imaginaries that will infect the ideas of tomorrow that will make the future of space possible and is part of a movement in countries outside the major space-faring nations that is taking ownership of the space futures". Nahum is the first artist to receive the Young Space Leader Award; for his contributions to astronautics and space exploration. Nahum is a fellow of the National System of Art Creators, National Endowment for Culture and Arts ( FONCA) in Mexico and an associate artist at The Arts Catalyst, London. Nah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theophile Moreux
Theophilus is a male given name with a range of alternative spellings. Its origin is the Greek word Θεόφιλος from θεός (''theós'', "God") and φιλία (''philía'', "love or affection") can be translated as "Love of God" or "Friend of God", i.e., it is a theophoric name, synonymous with the name '' Amadeus'' which originates from Latin, Gottlieb in German and Bogomil or Bogumił in Slavic. Theophilus may refer to: People Arts * Theophilus Cibber (1703–1758), English actor, playwright, author, son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber * Theophilus Clarke (1776?–1831), English painter * Theophilos Hatzimihail (c. 1870–1934), Greek folk painter from Lesbos * Theophilus Presbyter (1070–1125), Benedictine monk, and author of the best-known medieval "how-to" guide to several arts, including oil painting — thought to be a pseudonym of Roger of Helmarshausen Historical * Theophilos (emperor) (c. 812–842), Byzantine Emperor (reigned 829–842), the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Miller (artist And Author)
Ron Miller (born May 8, 1947) is an American illustrator and writer who lives and works in South Boston, Virginia. He now specializes in astronomical, astronautical and science fiction books for adults and young adults. Miller was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He holds a BFA from Columbus, Ohio, College of Art and Design. He worked as a commercial artist and designer for six years, before taking a position as art director for the National Air and Space Museum's Albert Einstein Planetarium. He left there in 1977 to become a freelance illustrator and author; to date he has nearly sixty book titles to his credit, and his illustrations have appeared on hundreds of book jackets, book interiors and in magazines such as '' National Geographic'', '' Reader's Digest'', ''Scientific American'', '' Smithsonian'', '' Analog'', '' Starlog'', ''Air & Space, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Science et Vie'', ''Newsweek'', '' Natural History'', '' Discover'', '' GEO'' and others. and '' Journey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd Mead
Sydney Jay Mead (July 18, 1933 – December 30, 2019) was an American industrial designer and Neo-futurism, neo-futurist concept artist. Initially known for his influential futuristic design work for industrial clients such as U.S. Steel, Philips, and Ford Motor Company, Ford, he subsequently went on to create conceptual and world designs for science-fiction films such as ''Blade Runner'', ''Aliens (film), Aliens'' and ''Tron''. Mead has been described as "the artist who illustrates the future" and "one of the most influential concept artists and industrial designers of our time." Life Early life Mead was born on July 18, 1933, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His father was a Baptists, Baptist minister, who read him pulp magazines, such as ''Buck Rogers'' and ''Flash Gordon'', sparking his interest in science fiction. Mead was skilled in drawing at a young age. According to Mead, "by the time I was in high school I could draw the human figure, I could draw animals, and I had a sense o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McCall (artist)
Robert Theodore McCall (December 23, 1919 – February 26, 2010) was an American artist, best known for his space art works. Work McCall was an illustrator for ''Life'' magazine in the 1960s, created promotional artwork for Stanley Kubrick's film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968) and Richard Fleischer's production ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' (1970) and worked as an artist for NASA, documenting the history of the Space Race. McCall was also production illustrator on '' Star Trek: The Motion Picture'' (1979) and Walt Disney's '' The Black Hole'' (1979). The character Commander William Riker expressed admiration for the work of "Bob McCall" in one episode of the television series '' Star Trek: The Next Generation''. McCall's work can be found on U.S. postage stamps, and also NASA mission patches such as for Apollo 17. He has created murals for the walls of the National Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery of Art, The Pentagon, Epcot, and Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg (born 1948) is an American space artist and science journalist. He was Carl Sagan's principal artistic collaborator for more than twenty years on many projects from 1972 through 1996. In 1998, the International Astronomical Union officially named an asteroid ( 6446 Lomberg) in recognition of his achievements in science communication. He was NASA's Design Director for the Golden Record on the Voyager spacecraft; the cover he designed is expected to last at least a billion years. Biography Jon Lomberg grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During a visit to Toronto, Ontario, after college, he was invited by science fiction author Judith Merril to display his artwork at a conference she organised for the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Lomberg moved to Toronto later that year and, after assisting Merril in a radio documentary for the CBC Radio One program '' Ideas'', went on to create many documentaries on topics such as NASA's Viking program and Halley's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
