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May 11, 2015
Media: Oil on canvas. One image is painted directly on the 20 x 16 canvas board. One image is on an 8 x 10 stretched canvas; the other is on a 5 x 7 stretched canvas.
Size: 20x16 in
The 25th anniversary of the Hubble telescope was widely publicized, and its astonishing images are available on the internet. In this painting I have attempted to capture three of them. At the upper left is my depiction of what appears to be a counterclockwise rotation around a very bright nucleus – perhaps a star. At the upper right is an elongated, almost-human eye with clearly defined pupil and iris. The lower image could almost be the “after” version of the star-like image above, the light path having diffused and deteriorated over the eons.
Since I’m not an astronomer, my thoroughly subjective comments have nothing to do with the reason for the images’ colors. But to mimic what I saw online, I used
several reds and blues, white, and a touch of various yellows and greens. For the background, representing the depths of outer space, I used mostly ivory black and ultramarine blue. The white dots, of course, represent the billions of stars, even further away in outer space.
I had been thinking of trying my hand at an abstract, something I had never done. Then I happened to see several of the images the Hubble had relayed to Earth. As I began to work I realized I wasn’t really painting an abstract but rather yet another form of realism – what might be called a “spacescape.” Perhaps a new genre of painting?
The eventual replacement for the Hubble telescope will reach even further into outer space. Who knows what it might see, millions of light years away? Perhaps things for which we now have no words. Food for thought!
“Hubble” is 16 x 20 inches overall. Two of the images are on stretched canvases mounted on the larger canvas board.
The 25th anniversary of the Hubble telescope was widely publicized, and its astonishing images are available on the internet. In this painting I have attempted to capture three of them. At the upper left is my depiction of what appears to be a counterclockwise rotation around a very bright nucleus – perhaps a star. At the upper right is an elongated, almost-human eye with clearly defined pupil and iris. The lower image could almost be the “after” version of the star-like image above, the light path having diffused and deteriorated over the eons.
Since I’m not an astronomer, my thoroughly subjective comments have nothing to do with the reason for the images’ colors. But to mimic what I saw online, I used
several reds and blues, white, and a touch of various yellows and greens. For the background, representing the depths of outer space, I used mostly ivory black and ultramarine blue. The white dots, of course, represent the billions of stars, even further away in outer space.
I had been thinking of trying my hand at an abstract, something I had never done. Then I happened to see several of the images the Hubble had relayed to Earth. As I began to work I realized I wasn’t really painting an abstract but rather yet another form of realism – what might be called a “spacescape.” Perhaps a new genre of painting?
The eventual replacement for the Hubble telescope will reach even further into outer space. Who knows what it might see, millions of light years away? Perhaps things for which we now have no words. Food for thought!
“Hubble” is 16 x 20 inches overall. Two of the images are on stretched canvases mounted on the larger canvas board.
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