Artist Information:
Sandor Barics
new york, NY
United States
Member Since: Feb 2003
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Artist Statement:
MARS SERIES
Mars has teased the imagination ever since the first astronomers, unnamed and lost in the dust of history, began serious study of the night sky. Unlike the countless other white lights in the sky, Mars doesnīt flicker, itīs glow red.
I have been researching Mars for the last seven years. In 1997, as a graduate student studying art in New York, I was becoming more and more interested in geometry and astronomical observations. It was a very special year : On the Surface of Mars at Ares Vallis on July 4th, 1997 the Pathfinder imager made the first color mosaics of the surface of Mars. Dark grey rocks, brownish-red desert soil, and a pale reddish sky.A surface full of riverbeds and basins that look like the remnants of ancient lakes. Dry for billions of years, this landscape became suddenly an ideal place to look for water. This marked manīs return to the surface of Mars after an absence of more than 20 years, a truly historical moment.
I still remenber watching with amazement as images of Mars, which was hundreds of millions of miles away, came down to the earth in color for the ...
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Sandor Barics's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Sandor Barics's Portfolio. Browse Barics's body of work: MARS SERIES
Mars has teased the imagination ever since the first astronomers, unnamed and lost in the dust of history, began serious study of the night sky. Unlike the countless other white lights in the sky, Mars doesnīt flicker, itīs glow red.
I have been researching Mars for the last seven years. In 1997, as a graduate student studying art in New York, I was becoming more and more interested in geometry and astronomical observations. It was a very special year : On the Surface of Mars at Ares Vallis on July 4th, 1997 the Pathfinder imager made the ... | |
virtus 1, 2002 Mixed Media, 40 x 50 X 4 cm Price: US$ 1000 €: 638 UK £: 495 ¥en: 99326
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virtus 2, 2002 Mixed Media, 40 x 50 X 4 cm Price: US$ 1000 €: 638 UK £: 495 ¥en: 99326
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virtus 4, 2002 Mixed Media, 40 x 50 X 4 cm Price: US$ 1000 €: 638 UK £: 495 ¥en: 99326
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virtus 3, 2002 Mixed Media, 40 x 50 X 4 cm Price: US$ 1000 €: 638 UK £: 495 ¥en: 99326
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