Art We Launched Into Space

There is plenty of art ABOUT space, but this video explores art ACTUALLY IN space. Learn about cosmonauts sketching orbital sunrises, the Moon Museum, Carl Sagan's Golden Record, and the sculptures currently orbiting Earth today, among other works of space art. Journey over to It's Okay to Be Smart to watch their Summer of Space episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6OVaa2DjbZmmLc
Thanks to our Grandmasters of the Arts Vincent Apa and Ernest Wolfe, and all of our patrons, especially Iain Eudaily, Patrick Hanna, Nichole Hicks, Eve Leonard, David Moore, Frame Monster Design Laboratory, Jane Quale, Constance Urist, and Nicholas Xu. To support our channel, visit: www.patreon.com/artassignment.

[@nneizmen]

Why didn’t they straight up make a sculpture on the moon out of the moons ground material

[@theartassignment]

Oh I really like this idea. Rearranging moon dust into a pattern or planned image that can be photographed and then left to redistribute/fade away. All art is ephemeral (on Earth and beyond), but that acknowledgment on the moon would be really beautiful. Any ideas for what it would be/say/appear as? An abstract design? Something representational? Text? What language?

[@scottmcintosh4397]

@@theartassignment That hardly qualifies as a 'sculpture'.

[@Abc-tx5hy]

It would be like mandalas and idols made of butter by buddhist monks in Tibet. By the afternoon everything melts. They are still sculpture and art, eventhough by the evening they are all gone.

[@narcissus6350]

Scott McIntosh You’re not quite right. That’s land art for you. But on the moon.

[@AT-zn9pv]

@@theartassignment if it was up to me i would make a giant hand reaching towards earth

[@neocuriositi]

NASA: So are you gonna help us with a mini space art musesum? Robert Rauschenberg: Yeah sure. *Draws line*

[@reanimatedmagpie]

I mean, it i s something that can be thought of as the smallest increment of what could be considered art.

[@patw.6567]

Neocuriosity could’ve called me in haha

[@disharibose7004]

Being a physics student wanting to pursue astrophysics in the future, and a very enthusiastic lover of art, this video spoke to me in unimaginable ways :)

[@theartassignment]

So happy to hear it!

[@disharibose7004]

@@theartassignment :) :) :) Sarah, you honestly made my day!!

[@user-cj4dp1vm2g]

Wow, the memorial statue is super heartwarming

[@theartassignment]

That image of the Fallen Astronaut on the moon next to the placard is incredibly moving to me. I put the image on my desktop and keep marveling over it.

[@user-cj4dp1vm2g]

@@theartassignment That's amazing that these people who died for their dream are able to finally rest where they always wanted.

[@Xenolilly]

Art is to be seen. So the idea that art is lost in space and is only remembered by us is a wonder.

[@cubeofcheese5574]

Maybe art is to be known, some by seeing, some by hearing, and some by learning about.

[@hedgehog3180]

Though also the art left in space will probably outlast us as it isn't being worn down constantly by the elements. Something left in orbit can stay there for millions of years.

[@oof-rr5nf]

that clip of the sculpture rotating in the air, followed by the man rotating in the air, really touched me for some reason. i am smiling from ear to ear.

[@theartassignment]

Same! I watched the clip too many times, and each time was unbelievably joyful.

[@oof-rr5nf]

@@theartassignment Holy hell, Sarah. I cannot believe you saw and responded to a comment I wrote. Day? Made!

[@JonathanDJCureton]

I started crying at that clip. It was so striking!

[@KannikCat]

Likewise! Mesmerizing and moving.

[@aleatoirefrancais]

I had the same unexpected reaction!

[@harshsharma9087]

This is pretty interesting. Given that we are now approaching the 50th anniversary of Moon landing!

[@matkenmedina6853]

Moon landing fake

[@oof-rr5nf]

space will never stop being cool and deeply, deeply terrifying

[@disharibose7004]

You spoke my heart.

[@oof-rr5nf]

@@disharibose7004 i saw your comment about you aspiring to go into astrophysics and being really into art. you sound awesome, have a great day ♡ (also your username sounds indian/desi. if i got that right, south asian five! 🖑 i'm indian)

[@disharibose7004]

This channel, alongside vlogbrothers, is honestly my favourite of all time.

[@charcoalangel7536]

There is a giant black hole in the middle of our galaxy......that is all I have to say.

[@tjs200]

just like the ocean

[@TheCanvasArtHistory]

Thank you! This is exactly the kind of content that inspired me to make my own videos. Keep up the good work!

[@lepetitprinceproduction4540]

You guys deserve more views!

[@tomwilson8176]

Me: Studying last minute for my Art Appreciation midterm Art Assignment: *posts new video* Me: *cries in Van Gogh*

[@oof-rr5nf]

* sob * i am crying in rabindranath tagore but you've made a good choice as well * sniff * * sob *

[@SK28th]

@@oof-rr5nf Are you Indian?

[@oof-rr5nf]

@@SK28th yeah :)

[@sonicgoo1121]

At least you're not crying in Bragolin. ;)

[@lorenabpv]

I hadn't ever considered the idea of art in space but this is a really cool topic (and I love your themed shirt!)

[@theartassignment]

I hadn't either, until I heard about PBS's Summer of Space. I first said as kind of a joke, "I should do Art in Space!" And then after considering for a few minutes and consulting a few sources circled back definitively and unapologetically: "I *should* do Art in Space and I am!"

[@tamphopho4219]

What's great about this channel is that it's always challenging you with ideas and concepts you hadn't thought of before, questions you never knew you wanted asked and answered. Big love from Quebec :)

[@Angel-uo4uw]

This channel is the absolute best. Thank you for existing, these videos are so calming to watch.

[@robinchesterfield42]

"The very first person in space ever made a coloured pencil drawing while up there." ME: Wait WHAT?! That's a detail all those books and stuff I've read never mentioned... "...but this video isn't about that." ME: I'm still stuck on "sketching IN SPACE with coloured pencils tied to the box"...

[@zacharybrown-silverstein5575]

What a great combination of art, science, and history.

[@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug]

1:35 Love how it looks more like you've forced a bunch of bored middle school teens to sign a greeting card to someone they don't care about.

[@kylehenderson9489]

I can't believe I get to contribute to this discussion on space art! My favorite space art is currently orbiting Jupiter mounted on the Juno Jupiter Space Probe. There are three lego minfigures on it made out of space grade materials one of Jupiter holding a lightning bold, one of Juno holding a magnifying glass and one of Galileo holding a sphere and telescope.

[@Novacynthia]

9:44 Bouquet 💐 of Flowers into Space Image on the Thumbnail 🦋💝🤹‍♀️MY FAV

[@naomil2288]

This video combines two things I love deeply, and does it so well!

[@qilorarv4999]

Not sure why, but but this video made me cry, maybe because of the sentiments, but really the ideas are beautiful. Thank you for this knowledge

[@virginiabianchi8928]

So, so interesting! Love how you talk about art in a different way, didn't know anything of the things you said in the video! Thank you

[@atillahanozturk3502]

It has been so long since I had my dose of Art assignment

[@marim0y]

How did I miss this episode? Space and ART together? I'm in!

[@weirdtyler4932]

The universe is the biggest work of art.

[@ahmedejaz1125]

It's definitely the biggest.

[@love_tammy]

the astronaut rotating like the sculpture is both really funny and just amazingly cool

[@Px828]

I watch a Vlog Brothers vodeo, and then one about Bob Ross, and then this is suggested. Perfect.

[@adamhack3677]

I love your videos so much, i can only image how much work is put into it. cudos.

[@Jonquil_Studios]

Ok, so, I maybe cried a little bit at the end there. Really beautiful episode. All of it is art💜

[@arcticblizzard3445]

"This will be the first piece of art ever sent into space!" Andy Warhol :* draws a peen*

[@awsmguy175]

i love this!!! imagine what people like copernicus or galileo would think if they saw this!!

[@disharibose7004]

Exactly my thoughts!!!!

[@theartassignment]

Love this thought. Also can’t help but think about what it would be like to see a video (or whatever format they’ll be using) made 100+ years from now about future space art.

[@RichMitch]

I must have a print of that Norman Rockwell at the beginning, love a big of Americana

[@sguzzygang]

Just found this channel. This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for a great video and channel!

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

Don't forget about Tom Scott's artwork of sending up a loaf of garlic bread into space & then eating it when it came back down.

[@ljmastertroll]

In a way we are Michelangelo painting the ceiling (of the world this time).

[@dianahenne8736]

Wow, that's an incredible way to think about it

[@Beryllahawk]

There's also mention of art in space - in fiction - Spider Robinson's wonderful Stardancer novels. In them, a handful of humans specifically go into space to explore dance in microgravity, and invent a whole new way of using the human body for the expression of the inner self. (Quite a lot of other stuff happens too, including a visit by aliens, but it IS science fiction after all.) Spider Robinson also has had some of the most romantic and moving descriptions and discussions about space flight. In particular his take on watching a rocket launching - I don't have the quote handy but what I can recall - The sheer audacity of it, a bunch of hairless apes balancing a tin can on top of a fountain made of hellfire, roaring its way off the ground and into the black...

[@НаташаЛ-ш5з]

Came here to see the bouquets - was not disappointed, and found much more than that. Thank you🌺🌺🌺

[@americanrebel413]

What this means to me is they put all this debris in orbit on top of all the debris that is up there to begin with, as if they need more!

[@KannikCat]

Oh my, as a lover of the space exploration, this was a wonderful video. That piece by Alexei Leonov is touchingly beautiful, so "simple" and yet so perfect and evocative. So glad you showed it as I'd never seen it before. I'm now wondering how many other art pieces were made while in space... (Though I don't mean to discount Alan Bean's art done on earth but based on his experiences on the moon, they are great!) And I'm right there with you that all of space exploration (and the universe itself) is art. Art is so much about reaching beyond ourselves, to perchance touch the unknown, to make us feel in ways perhaps before unfathomable, to inspire and to connect, and the various space programs and seeing the splendour that is the universe most certainly fits that bill. :)

[@theartassignment]

What a lovely definition of art, Oliver. I was really overwhelmed when making this video with affection for humankind and our flawed but curious and ever-reaching ways. Thanks for contributing your thoughts, as always!

[@KannikCat]

@@theartassignment Awww, thank you Sarah. :) “Our flawed but curious and ever-reaching ways” is wonderfully poetic. Watching and listening to all the recent Apollo 11 anniversary material has had me being repeatedly moved by the magnificence that is when we come together to work together towards, and achieve, amazing endeavours. We can be both the ugliest and the most beautiful species on our planet, and it is great to be reminded - and reach for - who we are at our most beautiful. :)

[@cjthibeau4843]

Awesome video as always! Didn't realize there was so much ART IS SPAAAAAAAAAAACE

[@prettybyaccident]

The pictures of the pine tree and the flowers totally disconnected, just floating in space were so sad and haunting.

[@LayilaFaon]

What a stunning painting 😍 this looks all so mysterious great

[@disharibose7004]

Slightly offtopic, but can we talk about your shirt and where I can get it from?

[@theartassignment]

Alas it is many years old and no longer for sale. But when you have a space cardigan in the back of your closet, you trot it out whenever you can!

[@disharibose7004]

@@theartassignment 1. Oh my goodness, you replied!!! 2. Now that it's out of sale, I think it's time to buy a white shirt and paint it in the colours of space!!

[@SPECK4ever]

Does Sarah have an Instagram for her fashion? It's just another form of art and expression that she utilizes so tastefully!!

[@woppi73]

@@disharibose7004 Making your own would be totally on point with The Art Assignment raison d'etre.

[@disharibose7004]

@@SPECK4ever So true!!! But I don't think she has an Instagram for her fashion outings :'(

[@nkbellani]

Interesting. Hope you can continue with this series.

[@hedgehog3180]

God that last bit really stuck with me. The entire endeavor to get into space really is art in so many ways, I mean look at the shiny and gold coated satellites and probes, the beautiful curvature of a launch, or images of Earth from space, or the measurements satellites take. There is something sublime about and I don't know what it is. In a way the entire idea behind it is the ultimate expression of human artistic vision, it's those Romantic painting of man standing against nature, it's the drive to understand the world and see it in new ways of the surrealists, it's the breaking of boundaries of conceptual art, and of all things it incorporates the desire of us to be immortal in our works, to leave our lasting mark as we seek to make sure not just we as individuals live on but our entire species. The drive to always see a new dawn and to make sure we always will.

[@3bnuri]

İ love the final thesis statements of your videos most!

[@sheren_b]

I just finished watching Chasing the Moon so it was really cool to see this PBS synergy for space content 🙌🏼✨

[@nanajiloh]

Halfway through this video I started crying and didn't even know why

[@aoifebyrne1913]

I want nothing more than to make space art!

[@NickBlume]

Live streaming can be used to choreograph the surge of cell tower zones with interest allowing you to use the US as a canvas that is broadcast into space (each cell tower zone is a point on the US as a canvas). The Quantum Eraser experiment (rewriting light waves to particles throughout time to the source) focused on starlight (your eyes naturally do this) can also be used to sculpt mechanisms that travel the Universe in moments then return before sent to anythought anywhere thought throughout time. Movements you make when painting should be used to simultaneously make music with ar (and when you sketch on paper on top of the mouse pad, drag a finger on the mouse pad with garageband's piano view open). The garageband electronic synthesizers will legitimize the use of live stages at venues when you paint wiith a projector enlarging your imagery. The audience can also be engaged by allowing them to participate in an escape room and distributing live painting making music you make on food. Consciousness is housed in 4 areas of the brain and can be externalized with cell phone electrodes on the forehead and just above the spine; infomorphs can also be used to where a mainframe leads and guides our choices and actions so heavily all that is lost when we pass is a bit of extra light added to our consciousness. If you get a chance, on my website you might enjoy using lucid dreams as a monitor (which is the foundation of offering consciousness the malleability necessary to externalize it into a cellphone). You can lucid dream on your own without my work by falling back to sleep when you wake and move your hands in your mind only then when decide you want to fly you can for example, problem is the more lush the dream starts the less control you have. Is there a dream that you might like to control more intricately (I can build augmented reality controls your sleeping movements and sounds use) (a lot of interest seems to be in how the existence of time travel proves the existence of God because that is the first thing to perfect to build omnipotence which would then require preserving the time line leading to that omnipotence creation)?

[@tjs200]

creating art is one of the coolest and purest things humans do.

[@RichardHannay]

Are all art technically in space if Earth is in space? 🤔

[@manveersinghgill9124]

Technically yes, but not really when you look at the definition people generally associate with "space".

[@sdbenwork7495]

Art Assignment!!!!! I love your videos they are everything I could ever want out of an art class. However, You missed a big talking point on this video. Astronaut Nicole Stott was the first person to paint in space while on board the ISS. She colabs with people and groups to send more art in space....

[@DasGanon]

I know this channel isn't updated much anymore, but there was a Tom Scott video about pigments from a few years ago where they mention some being made out of Hematite and I can't wait for some Martian Astronaut using the soil of Mars to make some paint.

[@bellasgonemissing9705]

I'd never seen the bouquet of flowers before, I'm blown away

[@AmbroseReed]

Beautiful episode!

[@maxinewest4096]

Interesting painting of space

[@patw.6567]

Art in space i never expected that

[@isabelasabbatini4431]

Sarah, I love your shirt sooo much

[@into_the_void]

This was a really cool episode...

[@notnek202]

Please do a video on art & the Paris Salon.

[@LizaBoltonNZ]

Great shirt and great episode 🖤💜

[@BIGWUNuvDbunch]

Center of gravity is fixed - the axis of rotation is unstable

[@dannydanny9875]

outta this world!

[@neilloo94]

do a video on sound art! love y'all!

[@HebaHosni]

Why did you stop posting?

[@santimartos4727]

I loved this video

[@nickmarsala3787]

Does NASA still have this Art program? If so how do you apply for it?

[@arminvanbuuren883]

Yeah art is cool and all, but where can I get this shirt ??

[@Jonquil_Studios]

It's out of print but there are some amazing Galaxy / space art clothes on Poshmark. Not trying to sell anything; this isn't even my account, I just love this shirt: posh.mk/s7xz74wFgY

[@idab2605]

I’m still wondering what are the Persian words hanging behind her back, i can read the word kitchen but what’s the second word?

[@theartassignment]

It's a sign for Conflict Kitchen, which was a really cool art project in Pittsburgh: www.conflictkitchen.org/about/

[@craigcoleman115]

Thank you for this wonderful episode on a great topic! So glad to see Arthur Woods, Cosmic Dancer mentioned in your video! He graduated from the same Art program where I teach. Coincidentally, I also have a piece of art in space on SPRITE-SAT, a small satellite that monitors lightning. The satellite was created by Tohoku University and was launched into space January 23rd, 2009. On the tip of the antenna is a silicon wafer with micro digital drawings with 40 pieces of art by artists from 14 different countries. For more information on the project, see their website: www.astro.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/SPRITE-SAT/spaceart_e.html

[@DAYBROK3]

I had the chance to be one of a group of artists who’s mini works from Canada sent up in one of those high altitude balloons. I have the book on it. I noticed that the watercolour was different from the what stayed on earth.

[@theartassignment]

Cool! Share a link?

[@DAYBROK3]

@@theartassignment sorry all i have is a book (RumbleSat, art from the edge of space) but i did find a cbc news piece. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-art-space-rumble-gallery-canadian-space-agency-alice-springs-1.4047931

[@graceoartyo]

aliens are gonna think we’re tiny

[@daftendirekt]

I love Andy Warhol oh my GOD.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

We should send any art that wants to go, to the moon. Coolest art gallery...ever. Come on Elon. Imagine the price for admission...

[@agustinvenegas5238]

Just the other day I was listening to the voyager golden record, mostly out of boredom, only to be struck with the beauty of human creativity, have you heard it? What's your favourite song?

[@G_Rad_Ski]

Neil Degrasse Tyson would give that space shirt a 10/10.

[@raphaelvilamiu]

No mention of Dear Moon?

[@n119511m]

What about Chris Hadfield´s version of "Space Oddity"?????????????????????

[@ricv64]

What about the planned destruction of the George Washington High school murals in San Francisco ? Destroying a in situ mural seems a worthy segment

[@dianacarmona6257]

What does it says in the title on arabic at your right?

[@PKMNFan4664]

Well what would making art in space be like? Obviously things like drawings and whatnot would work out fine, but would it be problematic trying to make paintings and sculptures by hand? I'm of course asking this in the context of there being no gravity. And I mean an astronaut making artwork, of course.

[@TotallyRadicoolDude]

OMG I love your shirt & I want it!

[@hedgehog3180]

What is that picture behind you with the men in suits and the back of an M1A2 Abrams?

[@markjannakos503]

I am surprised, and a little disappointed, that you left out the art contributions of Astronaut Alan L. Bean..... not only was he a well accomplished test pilot, and astronaut (Apollo 12, Skylab 3). he was an incredibly talented artist.

[@katetimmers6543]

I literally just saw the small moon museum piece like 5 minutes ago in my art museum. Love Ohio

[@theartassignment]

Lucky you! What museum?

[@katetimmers6543]

The Art Assignment the Dayton Art Institute! They currently have a small show of works all about the moon 🌙 😊

[@Tearyatobitz]

*WOW!*

[@circlesevendivination4928]

are we not going to talk about making art as a show of alien friendship

[@aurelijs8891]

Whoa, where are her glasses?!

[@alv4ro]

One very interesting piece of space artwork I missed in the video is the recent "Inner Telescope" which Eduardo Kac Designed on earth to be made in the ISS by astronaut Thomas Pesquet www.ekac.org/inner_telescope.html

[@sankondbest1]

ummm EXCUSE me?!? Did you really forget Elon Musk Launching a Tesla into space....uh...hello. Best "SPACE ART" ever!!!

[@rakesmaharzan3890]

Nasa: We're actually sending artwork in space. Andy Warhol: l'm gonna send the drawing of a penis that looks like a rocket. Robert Rauschenberg: **hold my beer.* Sends a line drawing 😅😅😅 Edit: One of my favourite 20th century artists.

[@PogieJoe]

Uh I love this show.

[@VIOMPUTER]

andy really was like that huh. good for him

[@Scribe13013]

Maybe we ARE space art

[@Darkchylde50]

Imagination isn't tangible enough to be "real" until it's brought into physical reality that can attest to one or some of the 5 senses. Other than that, it's just as juvenile as a child's *imaginary* friend - not there, not "real".

[@lucybull3711]

Something about the idea of human stuff, art that it may be, being put in space makes me strangely uncomfortable. It feels a little like littering? (but also there's so bloody many satellites ect out there that a lil bit of art doesn't make a load of difference)

[@Dang3rMouSe]

1960s artists ruined the industry to this day. Their artwork speaks for itself

[@john8865]

they should have sent d. hirst to the moon, and left him there.

[@brankeane2830]

Great video! One of my favourite works of art in space is The Last Pictures, a message on a disk for future generations placed in geosynchronous orbit - where it will stay forever. Might be worth a look in itself: creativetime.org/projects/the-last-pictures/

[@TheBrodudemanguy]

Yeti's!!!!!!!