Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistRudy Rucker CollectionPaintings
Description Oil on canvas. 40' by 30'. November, 2014.I started this painting as an abstraction. I started out with those four fat lines that weave over and under each other. And then I wanted to decorate the sectors of the canvas that the lines made. I was thinking I might emulate an Aboriginal Australian painting, or painting of an aerial view of crop fields as in Wayne Thiebauds paintings of the California Delta region. For the longest time, my painting reminded me of the works you see hanging on the walls in art schools. Unfinished, harsh, dissonant, with the paint colors right out of the tubes. I kept at it, layering on the tints and shades, blending, toning, and glazing. Finally the painting seemed warm and harmonious to me. But it still needed something. At this point I needed a cover painting for the new edition of my old novel, 'Mathematicians in Love.' So I decided to use this new painting. Theres a scene in 'Mathematicians in Love' when my characters are driving along the coast of Big Sur, and a giant flying alien cone shell is following themI think her name is Rowena. So I added Rowena and one of her smaller friends to the painting, also a tiny image of my characters car.
Rudy Rucker, Los Gatos, California Member Since February 2007 Artist Statement Rudy Rucker is a well-known novelist and popular science writer who paints surreal or abstract scenes that sometimes relate to incidents in his books. He's been painting since the year 2000. His paintings are popular, and he's sold about a hundred and twenty of them.
See his paintings page
https://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
For info on the individual pictures, see his online catalog
https://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings/rucker_paintings_catalog_scroll.pdf