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By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1848 contributed posts
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About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.
One hundred years ago today the Great Meteor Procession of 1913 occurred, a sky event described by some as “magnificent” and “entrancing” and which left people feeling “spellbound” and “privileged”. Because one had to be in a right location, outside, and under clear skies, only about 1,000 people noted seeing the procession. Lucky sky gazers — particularly those near Toronto, Canada — had their eyes drawn to an amazing train of bright meteors streaming across the sky, in groups, over the course of a few minutes. A current leading progenitor hypothesis is that a single large meteor once grazed the Earth’s atmosphere and broke up. When the resulting pieces next encountered the Earth, they came in over south-central Canada, traveled thousands of kilometers as they crossed over the northeastern USA, and eventually fell into the central Atlantic ocean. Pictured above is a digital scan of a halftone hand-tinted image by the artist Gustav Hahn who was fortunate enough to witness the event first hand.
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By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1848 contributed posts
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About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.
One hundred years ago today the Great Meteor Procession of 1913 occurred, a sky event described by some as “magnificent” and “entrancing” and which left people feeling “spellbound” and “privileged”. Because one had to be in a right location, outside, and under clear skies, only about 1,000 people noted seeing the procession. Lucky sky gazers — particularly those near Toronto, Canada — had their eyes drawn to an amazing train of bright meteors streaming across the sky, in groups, over the course of a few minutes. A current leading progenitor hypothesis is that a single large meteor once grazed the Earth’s atmosphere and broke up. When the resulting pieces next encountered the Earth, they came in over south-central Canada, traveled thousands of kilometers as they crossed over the northeastern USA, and eventually fell into the central Atlantic ocean. Pictured above is a digital scan of a halftone hand-tinted image by the artist Gustav Hahn who was fortunate enough to witness the event first hand.
Continue reading The Great Meteor Procession of 1913, by Gustav Hahn
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1848 contributed posts
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About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.
Watching the PBS Newshour last night, I was struck by a follow-up interview after coverage of Iceland’s volcano eruption where Jeffrey Brown spoke with Simon Winchester, author of “Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded.” (view the video here) Among other interesting facts about the many ways that massive eruption in 1883 affected mankind, he said the intense and lovely sunsets it created resulted in some very interesting art. William Ashcroft of England sat by the River Thames and painted one sunset after another, one every 10 minutes, until he had about 500 of them! Almost like creating animation cells or time-lapse photography, the sequence, now on display at the Natural History Museum in London, shows the incredible colors and their movement across the sky at that time.
Volcanic Skies over Brielle, Netherlands, captured by Dennis Put, Apr. 14, 2010
As it turns out, Edvard Munch said “The Scream” was
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Billy Childish is a renaissance man with quite a sense of humor and his painterly style has been compared to that of Van Gogh and German expressionists, such as Edvard Munch. …by definition an amateur is ‘One who engages in a pursuit, study, science, or sport as a pastime rather than as a profession.’ Childish sees it differently. “I’ve dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love. [I call myself this because] it’s also to have a lightness of touch and not be a fat neck proclaiming myself as a bloated professional.”
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