Lucien rudaux biography

The nineteenth century signaled a change in the ways artists responded to the world around them. Decorative pastoral landscapes were replaced bygd views of the world that carried more emotional impact and naturalistic detail.

In the United States, the Hudson River School, influenced by the Romantic movement, looked for the grandiose and awe-inspiring in an expanding country. Howard Russell Butler was an heir to this tradition, whose proponents included his uncle, William Stanley Hazeltine (1835–1900), and Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), with whom he studied in Mexico. 

It was from nineteenth-century romantic and naturalistic traditions that “space art” emerged. Two of the most recognized progenitors of space art, French astronomer-artist Lucien Rudaux (1874–1947) and American illustrator Chesley Bonestell (1888–1986), both contemporaries of Butler, turned their gazes up to the heavens in their sökande eller uppdrag to man the un-seeable visible wit

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Lucien Rudaux: The Other Father of Astronomical Art

Yesterday I introduced you to Chesley Bonestell and his pioneering work in developing Astronomical Art. Alongside Bonestell on the other side of the world in France was Lucien Rudaux who must also be credited with taking art and the minds and dreams of Earthlings into outer space.

Lucien Rudaux (1874-1947) is relatively unknown today but he was an amateur astronomer and professional artist who during the 1920s to 1930s produced spacescapes of such accuracy that they still hold up well even today. (Ron Miller/io9.gizmodo.com)

In the painting above Lucien Rudaux has shown what he believed a lunar eclipse might look like from the surface of the moon. The moon's surface appears red because the only sunlight visible has refracted through the Earth's atmosphere on the edges of the earth in the sky. (Wikipedia)

And below Rudaux has imagined the vision from the night sky of Mars looking at its two moons.

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Lucien Rudaux

French painter

Lucien Rudaux (French:[lysjɛ̃ʁydo]; 1874–1947) was a French artist and astronomer, who created famous paintings of space themes in the 1920s and 1930s.

The Rudauxcrater on Mars and the Lucien Rudaux Memorial Award are named in his honor. The asteroid 3574 Rudaux is also named for him.^[1]

Biography

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Lucien Rudaux was the son of the painter Edmond Rudaux, and grandfather by marriage of the French physicist Francis Rocard.

In 1892, he joined the Société astronomique de France. In 1894, he founded an observatory in Donville. In 1895–1896, he completed his military service at Granville.

From 1903, he was a science writer and artist for Nature and, from 1905, for L'Illustration.

He was in military service from August 1914 in the 79th Territorial Infantry Regiment. In 1915 he joined the 10th nursing section until 1917.

In 1936, he lived in 113 Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris.

In 1912 he was appointed an Officer of