Alan Bean / Alan Bean - Space painting (196 works)

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Alan Bean (born 1932) is an American astronaut. On November 19, 1969, he became the fourth person to set foot on the surface of the Moon. The Apollo 12 mission was the second landing on Earth's closest satellite.

Alan Bean has always had a passion for creativity. After becoming an astronaut, he found time in the evenings to practice art, if his training allowed. In 1981, after devoting 18 years of his life to space, Bean left NASA and began an artistic career.

In depicting distant worlds, he relies on his own memory. And this is not surprising, because Alan Bean is one of the elite dozen people who walked on the moon. Now, as an artist, he is fulfilling a new mission: sharing his impressions through paintings. Along with portraits of fellow astronauts, he paints landscapes of distant worlds, sometimes with elements of fantasy.

Over the years, he has discovered an unusual way of creating paintings: in works painted with acrylic paints in the manner of the impressionist Monet, he includes particles of real lunar dust, and instead of a brush, he sometimes uses spaceship tools.

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