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The class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.

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When Bill Finger and Bob Kane first introduced Bruce Wayne in detective comics 27, was he visually inspired by any actor like Clark Kent was by Harold Lloyd or Joker with Conrad Veidt ? If he was ...
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I read this novel so long ago I don't even remember when. Maybe 40 years ago, or more. I'm positive it is a novel, but the only thing that comes to my mind is one small but essential episode. One ...
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The knight is on the left of the castle in the distance. He's wearing a long cloak, and the horse's head is bowed. I think :| It may also have been an album cover but I would not swear to it. It was a ...
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I’m looking for a 1960s-70s science fiction short story anthology on fine arts. I only remember the summary of 2 of the stories. One was of composer who wrote commercial music by hand while most wrote ...
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In the Metroid games taking place on Zebes, the entrances to the "hideouts" of the minibosses Kraid and Ridley are often decorated with monstrous heads—a single-headed, blue monster at Kraid'...
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Maybe a long shot... A few weeks ago, I saw a post somewhere (I think it might have been here, not sure) asking for help identifying dozens of famous Sci-Fi characters and spaceships depicted in a ...
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I love spooky paranormal stuff (though I don't believe a lick of it) and am curious to know the origins of this eerie illustration of a Grey alien. I've seen it reposted online a lot, but with no ...
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The Rankin-Bass cartoon versions of The Hobbit and The Return of the King have not generally enjoyed strong reputations among Tolkien's fans. However, comparing them to some of the live action films, ...
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I asked this question of Wayne Hammond years ago, after going through J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator. He didn't know. I also asked about having to go and he speculatively joked about going ...
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Thrawn has the amazing ability to study a species' art (sculptures and paintings) and somehow figure out the intrinsic way the species waged war in conjunction with how they create. I’m not asking how ...
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Does anyone know anything about this sculpture? Artist? Name of sculpture?
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I picked this up at a thrift shop over the weekend. I found it very neat to see what a reader may have imagined the characters and world of LOTR to look like. I read the book in a Post-Jackson world, ...
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Google Images is no help, while Tineye reveals that this image of a non-human girl with dragon wings, blue skin, red eyes, horns and a tail, wearing what looks like a Japanese school uniform, given ...
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I'm looking to identify the source and artist of the below artwork linked to the Games Workshop Horus Heresy series. The image is commonly used to represent the release of a life eater virus by Space ...
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In this short story, two astronauts are exploring an art museum on an abandoned planet. The only living things present are the flies/gnats which swarm outside the museum. They are confused by the art ...
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A three-breasted woman is depicted on the cover, by artists Leo and Diane Dillon, of the 1970 first edition of the R. A. Lafferty collection Nine Hundred Grandmothers. Was this cover inspired by a ...
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In comments under the Space SE question Why do EVA suits have legs? the OP clarifies that for a humanoid astronaut performing extravehicular activities their suit may not need individual legs but ...
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I’m searching for what I’m certain originated as cover art from a sci-fi gaming magazine which I once collected from basic internet image search for “future woman soldier” or “sci-fi woman soldier” or ...
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I must have read this book in the '90s or earlier. There's an entire planet quarantined, as lots of people die off. Instead of the standard post-apocalypse story, it's about how people cope with their ...
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In the late night comedy talk show host Seth Meyers' recent video Trump's Secret Positive COVID Test; GOP's Omicron Conspiracy Theories: A Closer Look (cued at 09:17) there's a graphic of a faux old, ...
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Here is an example from the Lucifer series:
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I'd like to know if anyone remembers an episode of the PBS series 'Cover to Cover' with John Robbins in which he illustrated a story where a rabbit sought to gain antlers like a deer; the rabbit ...
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Heinlein's juvenile novel The Star Beast originally appeared in serialized form in F&SF as Star Lummox. F&SF included art by Fred Kirberger. There are a couple of strange things about the art....
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I read this in the early 1990s, almost definitely in a magazine, since I have a memory of black-and-white art depicting the painting in question. The setting is 20 minutes in the future, where almost ...
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In the classic novel On the Beach (1957, p. 178), Nevil Shute has two of his characters visit the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (Australia). They turned from the exhibition. "Are you ...
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Some years ago I followed an artist on instagram that had drew a comic about a boy whose young brother "disappears" while playing hide and seek in a forest. He then reappears but has a kind ...
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I'm trying to find a fantasy art book from the 1980s just for nostalgia to see if it's as strange as I remember. It was a smallish hardback book that just contained illustrations. The subject was ...
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The video Space Force - The Theme Song // Songify This is a rich source of old SciFi movie images. What vintage movie had this blue floating holographic head talking to some kind of military ...
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Vulcans adhere to foundations of logic. Music and art seem like emotionally driven creations.
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Out of the blue, one of my sons asked me today what Cthulhu's "stats" were. My immediate thought was to look them up in the original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Deities & Demigods. ...
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The details are hazy, but as far as I can remember there is an artist that was either blind or had poor eyesight and underwent surgery and after receiving artifical eyes could create paintings that ...
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On the platform of Liujia train station in Hsinchu county Taiwan there is what looks like a bronze sculpture of someone riding or flying a stylized retro or steampunk rocket motorcycle with a small ...
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In school we were interpreting a painting from Slovak artist Erik Šille called Wave (Vlna). He used a lot of pop-culture references, but we didn't recognize this little sailor. Is he from a cartoon or ...
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The BBC News exposé 'Our Saturn years'; Cassini's epic journey to the ringed planet, told by the people who helped make it happen includes the text: “The Voyagers gave us a really wonderful ...
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Saw this years ago, and heard tell this was some imagery around a proposed He-Man & the Masters of the Universe update movie. Nothing seems to have come of that, though. Still, the image is ...
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The opening credits of The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (a Harryhausen monster classic) features the camera panning across an artwork that shows scenes from the film. It ...
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Harry Bennett created the cover art for several novels (https://www.pinterest.com/nowvintage/harry-bennett-book-covers/) including The "Lomokome" Papers (https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?...
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Martin Key is listed as the illustrator in the debut issue of If magazine, March 1952. The cover illustration is this: Wikipedia has nothing. Amazon has nothing (not surprising, maybe 1 in 20 of the ...
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Magical artists are seemingly able to create magical paintings with the personality of a person, suggesting a great deal of magic ability and skill. Where exactly is this skill taught? Are there ...
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When discussing a question about the cover of an album by Conquest in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Alex noted that YouTube user Songofwyrd has written a comment referencing another album:...
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A while back, I shared a song to a friend, who upon seeing the video's thumbnail, immediately asked me whether the band had ripped off the cover of Jean Rabe's Red Magic (1991), the third novel in the ...
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Growing up in the late 70's and early 80's, I had this "photobook" of alien worlds. It was basically a collection of artwork with a short description of each world. It was a hardcover, but probably ...
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I've had a particular color illustration or painting in my mind, and despite it having very distinct elements for searching online, I just can't find it or the artist. I remember it from a horror ...
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This may not be the best place to ask, but I was trying to find artwork by a fantasy artist I remember very little about. I know his art was similar to Don Bluth’s work on the famous Dragons Lair ...
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In Star Trek TNG: Season 5, Episode 2, Darmok there is a brass Solar System artwork piece on the wall of the room that Troi and Data are in while trying to translate what the Tamarians are saying. ...
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I remember this painting, I think from the eighties, of a woman looking out through a cut out giant playing card. The card was a queen, of course, and her face lined up with the cut out portion of the ...
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As I was preparing this answer, I was struck by the creepy hollow eyes of the two of the figures in the stained glass window on the Edward Gorey cover of John Bellairs The Revenge of the Wizard's ...
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Of late, I have decided to start asking here all the various science fiction and fantasy questions that have puzzled me over the years. Today, I have a fireworks identification question. I know this ...
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I've had this poster on my wall for years. Today I noticed that the shadows on the lower ring of the space station don't seem to be consistent with the shadow on the Moon. The shadow at the base of ...
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I've been seeing this image of Morpheus - the main character of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman - quite frequently: Slight variation here and here It appears in multiple articles about the [now bust] The ...
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