Saturday, 20 October 2012

Pasmore, Rothko and Cassini amongst the Rings of Saturn.






I was much impressed with these recent images returned from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. They show the large, orange, hazy hydro-carbon cloaked moon Titan accompanied by the smaller moons Tethys and Dione, all set against the backdrop of Saturn and its ice rings.

I was reminded of the graphic cool of abstract paintings by Victor Pasmore and the drab but intense colour-ways of Mark Rothko,








Credits for images: NASA and the TATE


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