kilroy says:
el desierto azul esta es una obra de arte el roger se bvento un toque de mota se tubo que subir al cielo para crear tan perfecta muestra de un mundo que todos queremos "azul"

Phil Craigie says:
A fantastic image ! It seems todays computer artists are trying to create similar images to this and Rogers influence can be seen everywhere. A true original, Rogers Deans images will continue to influence artists for generations.

Diems Wilson says:
Dear Roger: Your drawings amaze me since the first Yes album covers I've seen some 20 years or more ago. Many years ago I've bought your Magnetic Storm book which stands on the honor spot of my bookshelf. I'm spiritist and I consider your drawings depictings of your memories from another worlds and/or dimensions. I'd like to ask you if "see" those images on your mind before you begin sketching or you just go sketching and drawing, just following your impulses? I'd like to understand that better, if you feel like talking about that of course. I don't wanna bother you, but I have strange fellings of having already being there on some of the places you've depicted, specially the Sidney Village, Green Castle, Flights of Icarus and Beginnings. Please tell me something about that and don't think I'm crazy ;-) By the way, your homepage is just terific, great!
Best regards, Your fan, Diems Porto Alegre - Brazil

Winston Arntz says:
The first glance of this painting almost hypnotized me...I just HAD to listen to the bands'music; Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe. And this directly lead to THE musical expierience of my life; YES Music... Thank you Roger, Blue Desert was my awakening...

Moulder says:
I like this artwork - it looks like some of the final fantasy artwork I downloaded the other night, but that bit better. My mom said that she had some artwork on a poster that looks like your style, but isn't, so she's been trying to work out who it was.

David says:
A style immediately recognisable, whatever the painting or illustration, none of Rogers many works needs a signature. This painting is as fresh and exciting as the first "Yes" album covers were years ago. The quality and style lives on - may it always do so!

Carlos Chacon says:
When I see Blue Desert I can't help but think about ABWH, my first contact with the Yes-guys. This image is engraved in a part of me much more complex than the mere brain, I would say it forms part of a higher stage of thought. Blue Desert is a masterpiece on its own right, supremely balanced in color and motion, and very much alive. These are the kind of works that I feel very proud to show to my friends when we are together listening to music or simply chatting, and I feel proud because I had the chance to know them and to introduce others to this high art form.

Sergio Ivan Castuera says:
La primera vez que pude contemplar el trabajo de roger pense que la naranja tenia demasiado acido. Es fantastico explorar las sensaciones visuales a traves de todas las imagenes desde los pictoriales hasto los logotipos. Mexico, puebla.

Jasper Joppe says:
I must Say, that the Blue Desert painting is a turning point to me in Roger Dean's career. To the audience it was up to this painting that we knew Roger painting with all kinds of tachniques, like watercolour, inks, Rapidograph and so on. Undoubtedly there could also be a reason of convenience for Roger to work with "easier" kinds of media, like Acrillyc based colours. The music industry is always as fast as possible, and Roger had to fullfil a job in less than no time, time after time... But it's a very good one! To me it is up to this day now that this painting shows the fantasy of Roger Dean in its most ultimate way. Very often he has used all kinds of blue colors, and somehow I feel those paintings the most beautiful. However, all kinds of things are said about the stone age, as I call the last period of Dean from 1989 until now. The Blue desert painting has another mystical way to me. Beside It's prime use, the record cover of ABWH, I've never found a real good print of this painting. Once I ordered the poster version from Pomegranate, and it made me sad to find this image in to much contrast. I think you can rape a painting easily by turning the colours all the way up, and Blue desert is such a painting. I do hope that one day in my life fine art prints will be made like the Topographic Oceans Painting, on which Roger had to work again after such a long time. Can we make a deal here?

Greg says:
fantastic mate .I hope heaven looks something like this. good on ya R.D

Francisco Osorio says:
Esta obra de arte de Dean, no puede ser concebida fuera del contexto de la musica de ABW&H... simplemente una de las mejores.

Tim Lau says:
THIS BRILLANT PRINT REMINDS ME OF THE WARM BEAUTIFUL DAY I SAW THE ABWH SHOW! IT HANGS IN MY OFFICE NOW. THANKS ROGER.

Alberto Raiser says:
Realmente es extraordinario el concepto visual y artístico de Roger Dean. si escuchas la musica de Yes descansando en tu cama y con los ojos cerrados (al menos en mi caso) puedes ver todo un universo, imaginario ??tal como nos lo muestra Roger. Creo que es el unico artista que puede convertir la música en imagen.
Gracias Roger!!
Gracias Yes !!

M. ERRY says:
It's my best and most favourite of my cassette/CD cover collection I ever had

Claudio Fierro says:
realmente un genio en estos tiempos....

Mychael Taunrue Pollard says:
Blue Desert is beautiful.As a musician & artist,I'm really inspired by Roger Dean's work, because as I view Dean's work of art,It expands my mind mentally on how I compose & do art as well.Thanks Roger!!!!!!

Miguel Conte says:
Por favor! Quiero estar en ese lugar!!!!!
Please! I want to be in this place!!!!
Thanks Roger... Mc

Ron Tyson says:
This is my favorite work of yours! This used to be on my wall(but ended up lost while moving), and it was a great inspiration to me in the simplest and most beatiful ways. Everybody dreams what other worlds are out there and if it is possible to see them. You paint them for others to be reminded that: If it can be conceived, it can be achieved, It is a pleasure to enjoy your work Mr.Dean. Thanks!!!

Jonne Perä says:
I think, that the image is GREAT. The longer you look at it the more you find from it. It's really YES!

Gerrit Andres Gloy says:
conoci los trabajos pinturescos de Roger Dean atraves de los discos de mi agrupacion favorita Asia de la cual tengo toda la coleccion desda Asia ASIA con el Dragon hasta la de hoy AURA.cada vez cuando sale algo nuevo de ellos quedo fasinado de las pinturas de Roger son muy interesantes de observar pienso que expresan mucha fantasia, fuertes colores y son muy futuristicas,espero poder seguir viendo amedu estas obras atraves de los discos de asia. gracias Gerrit Andres de Venezuela

Yanuly Sanson says:
Blue Desert is the painting that prompted me to explore Yesmusic. I'm indebted to Roger for his inspirational vision on this and many of this other works. This one is my favorite.

Huub Kruijntjens says:
Amazing !!

Chris Scharenbroch says:
Blue Desert is the most beautiful painting I've ever seen. I thought the cover for 'Keys To Ascension' was amazing as well, but this is truly the most inspirational. Thank You

Enzo Perugini says:
Conoci el trabajo de Roger Dean a traves de los discos de Yes y quede hondamente impresionado por la belleza y colorido. Tenia yo 15 años cuando me compre una reproduccion de Greenslade que colgue en mi cuarto. En pocas palabras sus obras son unicas, simplemente bellas e impactantes.
Bluedesert nos muestra un paisaje de otro mundo, tal vez nustro desierto interior.

Thomas Sivertsen says:
Roger Dean has, since the Yes Fragile album been one of my favorite artist, and he will always be atached to Yes music. As a Dean/Yes fan, I was (of course) disapointed over the 90125 and Big Generator albumcovers, but even more excited when the ABWH was released. The Blue Dessert is truly a great picture that fits the great music very well. A Roger Dean albumcover alone is a good argument for buying the CD. (Of course, the size of the CD is the only argument against it. It is hard to enjoy great art on a 12 by 12 cm sheet.) I hope that Roger Dean will continue to share his great inner visions with us.

achille benigni says:
I'm a huge yes-fan from Italy and love all the album covers painted by Roger Dean. The incredible landscapes he draws with his unique style are the graphic representation of the yes music. This is one of my favorite covers, even though I couldn't say the same about the ABWH album.

Daniel Esper Cintra says:
This is Roger Dean....

Roy Mauritsen says:
like other posts here.. this is one of my favorite paintings and also one of my favorite albums.. I think in a video for one of the songs off ABWH.. thereis an animated eagle that flies across this landscape.. as an Artist, myself.. Mr. Dean is a huge inspiration to me in his fatastical realization of landscape.. I met him briefly in NYC during one of the shows for OYE tour for YES. That was a great moment. Thanks Mr. Dean!

Dennis Haklar says:
Great atmosphere! Blue Desert has a Castenada feel.My wife and I went to see the real painting in san Francisco in an art gallery that had Roger's work on display. It is larger than life, it is life. You stand in front of it and its energy just draws you in.

Maurizio Valentini says:
Roger is...... incredible.... the only serious choice for the original design is the Fantasy Man... Great!

Clare says:
the spirit of this picture is great. free and easy. living architecture. natural growth...

Iván Lizama says:
sin duda que no había otra posible carátula para el 1er ABWH...la música y la gráfica se complementan en un renacer del profundo concepto YES.
Thanks Roger from Chile !!!mann says:

Kurt Bischoff says:
This has become one of my favourite roger dean images--in the same way that the abwh album is one of the best in the yes catalog. I saw the abwh tour at pine knob, in michigan, and was blown away! Though i am a huge yes fan--since 1971 & have seen yes in concert 16 times--i have always wondered if abwh getting together with the others to form 'union' was the right thing to do... Still and all, it is a great cover, roger! And i give you much credit for continuing to produce images for the band, in the confining area of the cd! Best wishes, and thank you for all of your past work!
Kurt Bischoff warren, michigan

Roberto Fernandes de Sousa says:
It reminds me of the early Yes days when we used to look at the images, listening to the songs, traveling inside our dreams. Of course it is more sophisticated than those images in the past, but the feeling inside it is the same.

John Duggan says:
This was a big, bright album cover at a big, bright time. I was just finishing university when I heard about the ABWH reunion, and when it came out, I felt the bright, fresh appearance of the 'Blue Desert' album cover went so well with the bright, fresh sound of the music. Everything was 'up' about this whole period, and I still recall it when I look at this beautiful picture today. Definitely my favourite.

Maurice Doubleday says:
The thing I always liked about this piece is that Roger did it when Yes were too hip to use him on 90125 etc. but brought him in for this special project. It gave the album the feel it needed and gave young Yes fans hope.

Peter Persson says:
Thank you for bringing "Blue Desert" in the Up Close section. It is my all-time favourite. I have a large poster of it in my bureau and everyone, who sees it there, loves the picture, too.

Luke Winter says:
This is my favourite painting. Not of Roger Dean, of all artists. I've never seen any (painted) landscape which is as amazing as the Blue Desert.

Ken Wechsler says:
This truely remarkable work has always astounded me. This work is from the Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe album. The album is a "Yes" album that couldn't legally be called Yes, due to the absence of Chris Squire. The detail in this work is amazing. The viewer can almost "feel" the shade in the foreground, under the tree. Mr. Dean seems to have a love of the American south west, because many works seem to set there. This work has a avian theme, as even the buildings have bird-like "beaks" projecting from them.

Eilidh says:
I think that this is one of Roger Dean's best, most influencial pictures. It's fantastic!

Cengiz VARLIK says:
This has always reminded me the chateau of Martians down on Earth. Is the flying bird a messenger between us and them? Maybe the eagle is the guardian.

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