(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

[Jeff Wilson]

On 6/30/2010 9:24 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> It occurred to me that Wolfe may have been inspired by an SF magazine
> cover rather than by a painting. I searched The Magazine of Fantasy and
> Science Fiction and found a similar image:
>
> http://www.philsp.com/data/images/f/fantasy_and_science_fiction_197702.jpg
>
> At least it has the gold faceplate and earth. Maybe Rudesind's painting
> is a composite?

If it's a composite, it could be a composite of anything, and I think 
it's a bit of a knock to say the pulp covers are more inspirational than 
actual pictures of actual spacemen on the moon.

A while back, we eliminated all of the then-recently released archive of 
Apollo 11 surface photography, as well as all of Alan Bean's work of an 
age to have been influential on BoTNS. If the paining is intended to be 
an original  painting and not a portraitized photograph, it is likely 
that the combination of details became traditional at some point when 
some painter deviated from the strictly historical but was well received 
nonetheless, like wozzname conflating Cupid with cherubim.

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