There have been a vast number of artistic influences involved in my artistic development and it is not as much that I tried to copy the artists that influenced me as much as I have strived to recreate the feeling and mood that I felt when I viewed their art.
The artist Roger Dean is one of the artists that made me realize that there was more to art than just creating things from our world, we can create things from other worlds...Alien worlds! One can create the most fantastic of creations and with a little skill can convince the eyes of others as they look at our art that they are viewing something that exists in reality.
when I first saw Roger Dean's work on album covers in the early 1970's, I was taken by how he used so many of the artistic elements that I had always been intrigued by such as art nouveau, antique Japanese prints,and the aesthetic movement and blended them in his own unique way to create a view of things that had only been seen in dreams previously.
Mister Dean's works are exceptional in that they create a world where we not only see what is before us in his images, but we can also see in our minds eye what is beyond the image. They make us think and wonder and they force us to step further into his work. I guess I can say they make us use our imaginative skills a little bit more. The magic of Roger Dean's work is not always so much as what he has created as in what is just a few feet outside of the view that we see.
To see more art by Roger Dean please click the picture below and visit his gallery at his website. One may also visit Roger Dean on Face Book.
The main reason for this post though is that August 31 is Mister Dean's birth day and I would like to wish him
A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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