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" APOLLO MOONSCAPE , An Explorer Artist's Vision " 80 Signed & Numbered Giclee Canvas Limited quantities available 200 Signed & Numbered Limited Editio Print The Moon was a stark and otherworldly place"gray soil, gray rocks and black sky as far as you can see," explains Alan Bean on "Apollo Moonscape." When I first began painting the Moon, I painted it exactly as I remembered it as an astronaut, much the way it looks in the photographs. But a literal record of this black-and-white world doesn't communicate what it felt like to be and work there. To the astronaut-engineer-scientist in me, the paintings looked correct. But they didn't completely satisfy the explorer artist in me, the part that loves color and impressionist paintings. A number of these paintings, particularly the greenish-gray one which was the first, have about four or five other paintings under them which I did as I tried to develop the color scheme. I tried to show the heat of the Moon, the feeling of the sun, so I painted one that looks more reddish to suggest the heat. I began to use violets in the craters and the dirt to make it quite beautiful instead of just gray. The other two paintings are a little more advanced and continue towards my work today. I think my role as an artist is not to duplicate nature but to interpret it in ways that are beautiful and important to the artist and, hopefully, to other people. The four paintings assembled into a single presentation give Alan Bean's "Apollo Moonscape, An Explorer Artist's Vision" a Pop Art feel while presenting a wonderfully graphic example of the artist's visual journey. You'll have your choice of either a fine art canvas (below) or paper giclee (above) of the work, each signed by Apollo 12 astronaut, moonwalker and explorer Alan Bean. Own your own piece of art history, the first paintings of another world by an artist who was actually there!
200 Signed & Numbered Giclee Paper
ALAN BEAN - November 2012 - Apollo Moonscape
Apollo Moonscape - Alan Bean ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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