Antonio Petruccelli

Colliding Atoms Illustration Published Life Mag Mid-Century Modern Atomic Space

1953

The Unity series is best described by a short story found in the introduction to author Don Miguel Ruiz’s book The Four Agreements. Three thousand years ago there was a [man] just...

"As above, so below." These words and all they represent have inspired a great deal of these works. Exploring what it means to live our soul purpose has led me to taking a closer ...

Continuing on with the Unity series I am starting to feel even more connected to the theme which seems to unite us all. Looking at cultures and spiritual traditions from around the ...

Continuing on with the Unity series I am starting to feel even more connected to the theme which seems to unite us all. Looking at cultures and spiritual traditions from around the ...

"Sat Chit Ananda" My soul is free from all restrictions My soul has spontaneous knowing My soul exists in complete fulfillment/bliss "Sat Chit Ananda" is a sutra that describes the ...

The Unity series is about bringing peace, balance, and harmony to the mind/body/spirit connection. Following the pathway of the chakras of the body and the geometry found in nature, ...

A poster belonging to Erik Nitsche's second series for General Dynamics, promoting its nuclear research. Founded 1952, General Dynamics hired Nitsche as Art Director – a Swiss (1908 – 1998) educated at the Collège Classique in his birth town Lausanne and at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. 1934 he emigrated to the United States and became an incredibly versatile graphic designer whose work became exemplary modernist. General Dynamics for its part focused on – amongst others – aerodynamics, aerospace, electronics and nuclear power. So here the company had a problem: Only a few years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki it wasn’t exactly the simplest thing to explore nuclear energy and not to be suspected of developing weapons of mass destruction. The International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy 1955 in Geneva was a great opportunity to be seen as a provider of peaceful technology. The guys in charge chose Erik Nitsche to communicate this message. He created four poster series. Atoms for Peace was the first consisting of eleven posters. The second was made for the Conference 1958; these posters are titled Exploring the Universe and represent different aspects of technological research. The third series promoted General Dynamics’ departments. The last series of six smaller posters...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso.

Wonderful vintage space abstract by Santa Cruz, California artist Ralph Edward Joosten (American, 1928-2009). Presented in a metal frame. Signed "R. Joos...

Sacred geometry is the tool that I use most in the Unity series to explore our relationship to the Divine and to the power and process of creation. Sacred geometry can be seen almo...