Universum is a painting by Hugo Heikenwaelder which was uploaded on January 21st, 2019.
Universum
This is the colored version of the Flammarion engraving. Hugo Heikenwaelder created this colored version in the year 1998.... more
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Universum
Artist
Hugo Heikenwaelder
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Painting - Watercolour
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This is the colored version of the Flammarion engraving. Hugo Heikenwaelder created this colored version in the year 1998.
A traveller puts his head under the edge of the firmament in the original black and white (1888) printing of the Flammarion engraving.
The engraving depicts a man, clothed in a long robe and carrying a staff, who is at the edge of the Earth, where it meets the sky. He kneels down and passes his head, shoulders, and right arm through the star-studded sky, discovering a marvellous realm of circling clouds, fires and suns beyond the heavens. One of the elements of the cosmic machinery bears a strong resemblance to traditional pictorial representations of the "wheel in the middle of a wheel" described in the visions of the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel. The caption that accompanies the engraving in Flammarion's book reads:
A missionary of the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where the sky and the Earth touch.
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Jean-Baptiste Pichancourt
Dear Hugo, I amm a research scientist, and your re-interpretation of Flammarion's engraving is my desktop wallpaper since a year. It reminds me everyday why I am doing this job. To find the unknown and what's behind the veil of appearances. I now want to buy it from the original reinterpretor. You. and not from other copycats on red bubble. However I have a question regarding the quality of what I would get. When I use the resolution tool of the website on the Flammarion engraving (https://pixels.com/featured/universum-hugo-heikenwaelder.html), for instance on the hand of the pilgrim), I see a lot of black pixels as if it was made using a poor resolution computer graphic program. Would it look the same if I buy a 76cm x 60cm "art print" with "archival matte paper"? Thanks for you answer and best regards.
Gull G
βIf you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.β β Vincent Van Gogh π Congratulations on your recent sale of this amazing Work!
Gull G
Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment. π πΈπ πΈ Congratulations on your recent sale
Krista Kitsz
Beautiful artwork!
Hugo Heikenwaelder replied:
Dear Krista, - thank you for yout comment ! Rembrandt is GOD ! Greetings from Austria - Hugo
Jacek Dudzinski
Amazing work. I love it! If you have a sec, please let me know what you think about my images. I really want to progress with my knowledge
Hugo Heikenwaelder replied:
To paint in oil needs a specific knowledge, - I have it ! Call me at +436764334433 -.Hugo
Gull G
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colours flowers, so does art colour life. -- Congratulations on your recent sale of an amazing work
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