Star Wars has always been a series with a multifaceted appeal. A lot of people got drawn in by the easily-digestible story helped along with a healthy helping of explosions. But many more stuck around for the epic music, enjoyable characters, and any number of other excellent aspects. So with all those dimensions, it should be no surprise that there's plenty of room for art in the Star Wars fandom, and a new collection seems ready to prove that readily.
There's a tradition at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim, the unambiguously-intended event paying homage to everything from a long time ago to the near future in a galaxy far, far away. It involves an art show that exhibits Star Wars pieces from creators far and wide, with an impressive variety of styles only limited by the artists' imaginations. Naturally, as art shows go, part of the idea is to sell prints to fans who want a little more pizzazz in their domiciles. But even without the intent to buy, they're a lot of fun to look at.
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The pieces range from impressively-detailed recreations of moments from the films themselves to much more stylized depictions of memorable characters and locations and everything in-between. But rather than just listing each work of art in a row, the folks at StarWars.com also collected blurbs from the artists telling their own tales behind each individual picture. Perhaps one of the most powerful ones comes right at the beginning, with a decidedly more meta painting depicting a young Black girl looking into a mirror with a couple of makeshift «lightsabers» and seeing an empowering vision of Rosario Dawson as the iconic Ahsoka Tano.
«My daughter Emily and I came up with the overall concept
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