To Boldly Paint What No Man Has Painted Before

David Mazzotta writes "It's not just Sci-Fi authors who have had influence on space technologies. Artist Chesley Bonestell produced beautiful space-art that inspiried people from Sagan to Heinlein."

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some more links

[pretzel_logic]

• Here is a link to Chesley Bonestells web site where you can find more art.
• His Bio,
• And some more art is here.
• But this one has a bunch of scans.
• Other space artist links.

this stuff is so cool...

Re:Can you buy these from somewhere?

[pretzel_logic]

Here is a a link to his book. It also has a pdf look inside feature.

Re:This guy's art and why I hate being an artist.

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually SF based art can succeed in the mainstream art world - even when it is a blatent rip off:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1044375 .s tm

Great work

[software_non_olet]

You may want to have a look at his own site too.

Re:This guy's art and why I hate being an artist.

[webmaven]

Thankfully, there is the Association of Science-fiction and Fantasy Artists which gives an annual award (The Chesley Award).

The Chesley awards are presented each year at the World Science Fiction Convention, which this year (later this month, in fact) is in San Jose.

The convention has an extensive art show, with many artists exhibiting their work.

There is even a 'real-world' gallery devoted to space art.

So, although the 'serious' art world looks down on this type of art, there are venues, and a market, for this work.