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Glendon Mellow is a fine artist and illustrator inspired by evolutionary biology working in oil and digital media. He moderates the ScienceArt Circle community on G+. Glendon's Portfolio is at glendonmellow.com, and work-in-progress blog is at The Flying Trilobite. Find him on Google+.
Follow solo on Twitter at @flyingtrilobite, or Follow on Twitter @symbiartic.
Starseeds © Jon Lomberg
“Young stars burst forth from a nebula, like seeds spreading through the galaxy. Just as seeds grow flowers that make more seeds, nebulae form stars that eventually form new nebulae. Cosmic cycles of life and death are apparent at all scales.
This painting was the inspiration for the dandelion motif that runs through the TV series COSMOS. Carl Sagan did not want his “spaceship of the imagination” to have a realistic, technological feel, and this painting brought forth the idea that the spaceship, when seen from outside, resembled a seed, blowing through the cosmos.”
-Artist Jon Lomberg
Artist Jon Lomberg was Carl Sagan’s favorite painter and still collaborates with NASA today, as featured on Symbiartic previously.
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Starseeds by Jon Lomberg
Acrylic on board.
You can see more about this painting and purchase prints at Jon’s website.
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About the Author: Glendon Mellow is a fine artist and illustrator inspired by evolutionary biology working in oil and digital media. He moderates the ScienceArt Circle community on G+. Glendon's Portfolio is at glendonmellow.com, and work-in-progress blog is at The Flying Trilobite. Find him on Google+.
Follow solo on Twitter at @flyingtrilobite, or Follow on Twitter @symbiartic.
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oooh, neat! Good call.
Link to thisWell, when was it painted? That little piddling detail might help.
Link to thisHey Quinn. We did provide years on most of the SciArt of the Day. In this case, the artist himself doesn’t have dates on his website.
I’ll see if I can find out.
From time to time, people have also pointed out we do not usually include the size of the art work. Personally, I think that doesn’t matter too much for most 2D images being viewed online. Maybe others disagree?
Link to thisQuinn, Jon let me know this was painted in 1978.
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