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This was the beginning of their quarter century of collaboration on many projects, including the Cosmos series (for which Lomberg created the talent pool [13] and as chief artist [14] [15] won a Primetime Emmy Award), the Cosmos book, Broca's Brain, [2] [3] NASA's interstellar Voyager Golden Record, [14] [15] [16] the original cover art for ...
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The term "peintres voyageurs" is a recent term (1993) given by some art historians to the large and diverse group of itinerant French artists - who in many cases spent more time travelling in the French colonies and the Far East than resident in France - from the end of the 19th century to the outbreak of World War II and the ensuing end of the colonial era.
Each painting places the voyager and his guardian angel in a different part of the river and surrounding wilderness. Art critics have ascribed a variety of potential inspirations to the work, the most obvious being the Bible's "river of life" imagery and John Bunyan 's The Pilgrim's Progress , along with a variety of 19th-century poems, essays ...
The sculptures are examples of surrealist art. They portray human beings with large parts of their bodies missing. [5] Each statue carries a single case. The case represents a weight on the traveler, and also connects the upper and lower parts of the sculpture. The missing space is left for the viewer to interpret. [5]
After a well-received exhibition of his work in five Soviet museums – Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Hermitage Museum, Kiev Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art and State Museum of Fine Arts, Riga – in 1957–58, he donated several hundred of his paintings and drawings to the Soviet ...
In 1986, the district association of the west part of the city funded a competition for a new outdoor sculpture to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the city of Reykjavík. Árnason's Sun Voyager won the competition, and the aluminium model (42.5 cm × 88 cm × 36 cm, 16.7 in × 34.6 in × 14.2 in) was presented to the city for enlargement.
The spacecraft launched in 1977 and is now 15 billion miles from Earth. It went silent in November. Scientists at JPL figured out how to get it talking again.