Bird in Space (L’Oiseau dans l’espace), 1932-1940, polished brass
…Nature didn’t even have to try.
NGC 4676: When Mice Collide
‘Let art be content with its lofty, splendid mission of being a substitute for reality in case of its absence, and of being a textbook of life for man. Reality stands higher than dreams, and essential purpose stands higher than fantastic claims.’
N.G. Chernyshevsky, ‘The Aesthetic Relation of Art to Reality’, MA thesis, 1855, in Selected Philosophical Essays, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953, 379
Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis/Vikas Chander
‘Let art be content with its lofty, splendid mission of being a substitute for reality in case of its absence, and of being a textbook of life for man. Reality stands higher than dreams, and essential purpose stands higher than fantastic claims.’
N.G. Chernyshevsky, ‘The Aesthetic Relation of Art to Reality’, MA thesis, 1855, in Selected Philosophical Essays, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1953, 379
I pushed through a wall of trees and bushes and suddenly found myself in this natural amphitheatre. It was utterly silent and but for the clouds drifting slowly, completely still.