From Moon To Canvas

The 4th man to have walked on the moon, Alan Bean, has since become a painter. He took the moonwalk in Apollo X11 in 1969. In 1981 he thought his retina had recorded sufficient spectacular images of the stratosphere and decided to take off his space suit for the apron of a painter. He took up the palette and brushes and began to transform the amazing images of what he had the opportunity witnessing to the canvas.

Now those who have keen desire to visit the moon, but lacking the capital to realize this dream, can visit the National Museum of Air and Space in Washington (6th & Independence Ave), where Bean's exhibition of paintings was on in 2010 under the title: Alan Bean: Painting Apollo, first artist on another world.

The exhibitions presents an ample collection of his work, seen through the ex-astronaut's own eyes, all that he had seen and experienced of that very special and unique space travel. His painting is artistic but of realism, of that virgin planet that we all wonder about.

 

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