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"Artist" Frames
All Paintings & Prints can be supplied in "ready to hang" handmade and hand-embellished "Artist
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Rogue Ship. Created
for the Panther Books paperback edition of the story in the 70's by the
Artist, the novel was created in 1967 as an adaption from three
short stories, which were; - Centaurus II. Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine in 1947. - Rogue Ship. Originally published in Super Science Stories in 1950. - The Expendables. Originally published in Worlds of Science Fiction in 1963. In the painting the Artist has created a vast spaceship of many colours
and fully armed. He has visualised the mighty space cruiser in Van
Vogt's novel as it coasts through the dreadful emptiness of Space,
which is uncharacteristically rendered in a deep warm brown rather than
the totally forbidding empty blackness that was all too often typical
of the time, in an early experiment of what came to be a signature of
many of his SF works, that of unconventionally coloured space, although
while this was considered a strikingly unusual approach by most art
directors at the time, in fact it deliberately referenced the works
of earlier SF Artists in the pulp magazines era. Space is neutral and gives no feelings of safety or comfort in most Artists works, but here the rocks trigger feelings of lack
of control as they convey danger and a sense of pending calamity as the
ship attempts to navigate a path through the hurling asteroid shower
onward to its destination, Centaurus, and its mission to save humanity.The size of the craft and its predicament suggest that the humans traveling in it are vulnerable in their isolation to feelings of restlessness, panic and mutiny and in the image at least, impending impact with space debris. Wanting to return to a place they know, Earth, and not continue on to face the uncertainty of the unknown, they seem to have no ability to do so leaving the Captain to face the future with what is vital, his knowledge that Earth was possibly, by then, obliterated, with the implication that Centaurus was his one hope . . . . . . . .
The design the Artist came up with was intended to present the viewer
with a scene, "a feeling", that showed a spacecraft hurtling at
terrific speed and creating a sense that, whatever the wishes, desires,
fears and anxieties or mutinous attempts of its occupants, they would
be as naught compared with the inescapable on-rush to a predetermined
destination that the sheer speed of the craft itself (indeed, a "Rogue
Ship" was the briefing discussion had with the Art Director (Steve
Abis) before commencement of the painting) would override any
intentions or wishes of the passengers inside.This approach, non-narrative and more emotive in nature than was
typical of Science Fiction Artists of the time, became a central theme
in how the Artist approached developing what came to be known as "The
PAJ style" which is as much about the emotions of the participants in a
portrayed event as it is about mere artistic technique.  See it in this Collector's Edition book |
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