DRAWING AND PAINT

Most likely, sci fi art is one of your first childhood memories.  Even if you didn’t understand the plot of the Star Wars films, your young mind was still enthralled by the visuals of the space travels and fantastic cityscapes of faraway planets.  As you grew and read stories on your own, sci fi art took up a large part of your imagination as you visualized the scenes that the words in your sci fi books fired within you.  Even upon adulthood and the resulting change in intellect, the fanciful nature of sci fi art took hold in your cultural appreciation of this worldwide popular genre.  Or perhaps you even tried drawing it on your own!  Rocketships and aliens, swirling nebulae and fantastic special effects came to life on your drawing pad and if you were lucky, your talent flowered and you even began to use more sophisticated media than a pencil and a ragged legal pad to create the scenes in your mind’s eye.  Many an artist has begun in this fashion.

With the emphasis on the space program in the latter half of the twentieth century, sci fi art has captivated a large part of the public’s imagination.  Depictions of the moon, our most visible and time-honored subject of sci fi art, became imbued with aliens as our fancies suggested that a planet was far too uninteresting unless it held life.  Upon landing upon the moon and discovering that no aliens were there, but that it did hold icy-sharp mountainscapes in its airless surface, sci fi art forged ahead in painting such faraway objects.  The works of Bonestell and Rudaux furthered the realm of sci fi art when they showed vistas of the rings of Saturn and monumental rock formations on moons that existed only in the imagination.  These artists had very little to go on for their work except research by the cutting edge of scientific theory.  It is to their credit that their work possesses the verisimilitude of reality in such a difficult-to-portray genre.

Phenomena such as airglow and the outer reaches of the sun’s corona may be difficult for a photographer to capture on film, but the able artist sees the object and translates his artistic vision into a painting that inspires the workaday world of the public to look upwards and wonder.  Studios formerly in the realm of scientific speculation have taken physical shape in the studio of zero-gravity artist’s Frank Pietronigro as he made his art in a flying studio where he drew, created ‘drift paintings’ and crafted microgravity mobiles.  If any field in art is wide-open to innovation, sci fi art can make that claim.

If you purchase a piece of sci fi contemporary original abstract art painting, you will be able to fly away from the everyday world from your office or home while still earthbound.  Your imaginative painting is almost the epitome of abstract painting, as form and color come to vivid life in the picture of your choosing, a high-flying canvas that you adore.