The Role of Art in the Space Environment
Artworks that may be simultaneously experienced by the entire planet represent a revolutionary development in the history of the visual arts. In 1911, Wassily Kandinsky wrote: “The great epoch of the Spiritual which is already beginning, or, in embryonic form, began already yesterday……provides and will provide the soil in which a kind of monumental work of art must come to fruition.” The British art historian Herbert Read (1967) has written: “The artist and the community are profoundly interrelated. Traditionally, artists have been channels for the tempo, the tone and the intensity of their society. The function of their art is [...]
The Moon as a Cultural Destination
Roger Malina, an astrophysicist and editor of Leonardo – the journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, states (1991) : [1] “The creation of contemporary art is inextricably tied to the process of creating human civilization. Within this perspective, art making will occur as a part of space exploration, and in fact art making must be encouraged in space as one of the ways without which, in the long run, human use of space will be incomplete and unsuccessful.” From an historical perspective, the first literary description of trips to the Moon, the Sun, and other [...]
Art to the Stars
An Astronautical Perspective on the Arts and Space Arthur Woods – Latest update: April 2026 Most people are probably not aware that the idea of space exploration began in the mind of the artist or that artists have been intimately involved in space exploration from the beginning. Yet long before the first rocket penetrated the atmosphere, artists were making the concept of humanity traveling beyond Earth’s atmosphere a reality. This has led to a genre of art called Space Art sometimes referred to as AstroArt – two terms which can be used interchangeably when describing art related to artists who are inspired by or depicting [...]
Artworks that may be simultaneously experienced by the entire planet represent a revolutionary development in the history of the visual arts. In 1911, Wassily Kandinsky wrote: “The great epoch of [...]
Roger Malina, an astrophysicist and editor of Leonardo – the journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, states (1991) : [1] “The creation of contemporary art is [...]
An Astronautical Perspective on the Arts and Space Arthur Woods – Latest update: April 2026 Most people are probably not aware that the idea of space exploration began in the mind [...]
