Journey into the universe along with mysterious photos of distant space. Space paintings on canvas Fantastic space landscapes drawings
Space pictures are what helps us to get to know the unknown world of the universe better. On clear warm evenings, looking at the sky strewn with millions of stars, people involuntarily freeze in front of its grandeur and incredible beauty. It is so mysterious and alluring.
What is hidden in the moon? Why do stars twinkle? Are there living inhabitants on other planets? A person can see the fullness of space mysteries either on a dark moonless night, or admiring beautiful photos of space in excellent hd quality.
The planets of the solar system excite the imagination and cause a hundred thoughts. It is amazing that there are other worlds different from ours. Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Mars - what are they? What is the earth from space, if you look at it from the side?
The answer lies in the collection, which contains pictures on the topic space. Here all its greatness, beauty, fabulousness are collected and many mysteries are revealed.
Photos of space are rich in surprises and unusual landscapes and therefore are so popular with people. They keep secrets that mankind has not yet been able to unravel. By studying photographs of the earth from space, we only put forward our assumptions about the existing life in other civilizations.
Perhaps someday we will see creatures similar to us or even more developed on them. And who knows, maybe it will be tomorrow? Install image space on your desktop, and suddenly a cute alien will smile at us from the photo and happily say: “Hi!”
Modular paintings of the planets are posters or paintings consisting of several parts at once, which are gaining popularity.
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To Cosmonautics Day April 12. About the painting of Russian cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, Vladimir Dzhanibekov and American astronaut Alan Bean
Cosmonauts - people of a truly heroic profession - are difficult to imagine in philosophical reflections, with a brush behind an easel. It is understandable. Space is a harsh world that does not forgive human mistakes either in orbit or on earth, requiring the utmost rationality. But for those chosen ones who have been in it, space is also fantastic emotions, very special experiences, an internal dialogue with eternity alone with the boundless universe. Perhaps that is why astronauts take up brushes. And not without success: not on the table, but with albums, with books, with exhibitions, with museums. These are the cosmonauts-artists that will be discussed.
The most famous artist among astronauts since the 1960s is, of course, Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov (1934). Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (the cosmonauts were simply not given more than two gold stars), the first man in outer space (at that time he miraculously did not die in an emergency), a daredevil who more than once looked death in the eye. Together with Gagarin, he applied for participation in a manned expedition to the moon (which never took place). However, Leonov is not a harsh hero, but a charming, smiling man, a favorite of the inhabitants of Star City. Many Soviet schoolchildren had his book "The Solar Wind", decorated with his own drawings and paintings. In those days, no money was spared for education.
Leonov is an artist of impression, who cares not for graphic perfection and photographic quality, but for a fantastic palette and unearthly views that he observed with his own eyes. Leonov managed to carry colored pencils aboard the ship, so many of his works are based on sketches made on board the stations. It is no coincidence that one of his best paintings was “Above the Terminator” (the zone of day and night change), in which there are neither astronauts nor spaceships of the future - only nature in all its perfection.
Leonov has been painting both entirely by himself and together with Andrei Konstantinovich Sokolov (1931–2007) since the mid-1960s. The paintings of Leonov and Sokolov were published many times, and one of their painting series formed the basis for the design of the 1972 series of postage stamps "15 years of the space age".
Leonov's paintings are in museums, participate in exhibitions, were exhibited three times at auctions. The highest price was registered at Sotheby's back in 1996. Then his one and a half meter canvas with the launch of Soyuz-19 was sold for $9,200.
Pictures of the co-author Leonov - the artist were put up for auction. Sokolov had no direct relationship to space, but he was one of the pioneers in space painting. An architect by education (his father, by the way, built Baikonur), Sokolov since 1957 became interested in painting on a space theme, with a sci-fi bias. Fantast Ivan Efremov dedicated the story "Five Pictures" to him - a rather reactionary one, criticizing abstract art in accordance with the spirit of that time and elevating artists working with the themes of space and the future of space research. Efremov's "Russian Falcon" - accidentally found "the only Russian space artist who worked at the very beginning of the space age" - this is just Sokolov. His paintings inspired not only Efremov. In the biographies of Andrei Konstantinovich, one can read that it was under the influence of his painting “Elevator to Space” that Arthur Clarke wrote the book “Fountains of Paradise”. Quite possible. Both the picture and the idea itself still make an impression. Sokolov's paintings can now be purchased at the gallery market. And just a month ago, one of his paintings, Sakhalin from Space (1980), was sold at the Russian Enamel auction for 90,000 rubles.
Another Russian cosmonaut who is seriously involved in painting is (1942). A daredevil, a professional of the highest class and a great clever girl. Made five expeditions, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Dzhanibekov was sent into the thick of things, to the most difficult and risky tasks. In 1985, Dzhanibekov and Savinykh were sent to restore the work of the Salyut-7 station, which had lost control and was inoperable. Docked with her in visual manual mode, without automation. They entered, repaired, as a result, the station continued to work.
Vladimir Dzhanibekov draws and writes not only space, although space subjects are often found in his works. But if you look at his selected works on the official website, it becomes clear that he is rather interested not in the technological side of space exploration, but in man and the philosophical questions of the universe. Dzhanibekov is a member of the Union of Artists, and in 2012 he was accepted into the art association "Mitki".
On the auction market, Dzhanibekov's painting has been exhibited only once so far - in 2015 at the Berlin auction Auctionata. Then his canvas "Cosmonaut" (1984) was sold for $455.
For our cosmonauts, painting is more of an internal need, they definitely do not make a living from art. But their overseas counterpart manages to earn money with his civic hobby. American astronaut Alan Bean (1939) participated in the 1969 Moon landing as part of the Apollo 12 crew. Walked on the surface of the Earth's satellite, collected soil samples in the Ocean of Storms.
After resigning from NASA in 1981, Alan Bean chose not the usual political career for retirees, but devoted himself entirely to painting. His main theme, of course, was lunar landscapes, astronauts in spacesuits working on the surface of the moon. His works are exhibited by museums at specialized space exhibitions, sold by galleries, and their price level is about $45,000. The only auction sale for paintings by Alan Bean was registered in 2007. A medium-sized acrylic depicting an astronaut working on the moon was sold at the New Orleans US auction for $38,400. The auction also sells his large lithographs (about $500) and photographs taken during the lunar expedition ($300-$1000 dollars).
These are the space artists.
And, taking this opportunity: cosmonauts, astronauts, engineers, scientists, physicians, all specialists participating in space programs, and everyone who is rooting for them - Happy Holidays! Happy Cosmonautics Day! Happy 55th anniversary of Gagarin's flight, which we celebrate in 2016!
Vladimir Bogdanov,AI
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The theme of space - its conquest and development, space flights and a possible meeting with another, alien intelligence, other civilizations is not new. The topic of space flights, it would seem, is absolutely scientific, a highly professional topic, with varying frequency and degree of popularity, is raised in literature and cinematography.
Space, the idea of man's exploration of the Universe, the theme of man's conquest of others, different from the world of the Earth, acquaintance with other civilizations could not bypass the fine arts. Speaking about the space theme in painting, I would like to highlight several areas in the theme of "Space and the artist". Such themes are space realism, which describes the everyday life of the conquerors of space, the realities of today and, more popularly, sci-fi.
The very idea of the space theme in painting has its own stages of development, passing its own way - depending on the understanding in society of the very idea of space flights - from illustrations to the works of H. G. Wells, Edgar Burroughs and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky to canvases and exhibitions dedicated to the everyday life of cosmonauts and astronauts , a vision of the technologies of tomorrow.
And with the development of science, the growth of technical knowledge in the early twentieth century, the creative approach of writers is changing, who from absolutely fantastic ideas of conquering space and traveling through time with the power of the mind (like the heroes of Burroughs' novels) approach the idea of conquering space more pragmatically. And with the transition from "fantasy" to science fiction in literature, the work of illustrators is changing accordingly. The creation of the first, one cannot say scientific, but fantastic films about space flights and the conquest of Mars, also provided a topic for reflection and implementation in illustrative works.
After the publication of books by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in various directions, from scientific works to science fiction works, the conquest of space ceases to be a fantasy. Let as illustrations for various fantastic stories, but the idea was alive. Looking at the paintings of artists dedicated to the theme of space, traveling along the roads of the Universe, one cannot see even a shadow of primitivism, a lack of understanding of the topic. Even in the illustrations for the works of K. Tsiolkovsky, where the cosmonaut is dressed in a hard space suit, an understanding of the danger of being in an airless space is clearly traced. Indeed, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov almost died during his first spacewalk. The reason is a soft suit, through which he was barely able to return to the ship.
And yet it should be noted that realism remained a priority. The task of the artist was considered to show the heroes of his era. Pilots, workers and collective farmers - in the pre-war period, heroes of the front and rear - the war period and the victorious people in the post-war period.
Not occupying a leading position in the visual arts, the theme of "space roads" remained quite popular as illustrations for science fiction novels - both by Soviet and foreign writers. One of the "gurus" of this direction can be called Yuri Pavlovich Shvets, known both for sketches for science fiction films and for his individual works on similar topics.
Undoubtedly, interest in space, its conquest by man, increased after Yuri Gagarin's flight into outer space on April 12, 1961. But in fact, apart from the idea itself, there was nothing to talk about. The works of the artists were presented in topics like: "The conquest of space by the Soviet man" or on the topics: "Is there life on Mars?", "The climate of Venus - the planet of fogs." These were mostly illustrations for popular science publications and science fiction stories.
Paintings by Alexei Leonov, which were released in 1967, are beginning to change the situation. Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, cosmonaut, who made his first flight in March 1965 as co-pilot of the Vostok-2 spacecraft. During this flight, a spacewalk was performed. In July 1979, together with V. Kubasov, on the Soyuz-19 spacecraft, he made the second flight. During this flight, the Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft were docked.
The cosmonaut, who knows space not from the plots of novels and has his own idea of the roads leading to the Universe, creates both his own canvases and works in collaboration with Andrei Sokolov, whose work, since 1957 - the launch of the first Soviet satellite into Earth's orbit, was dedicated to the topic space. The work of Andrei Konstantinovich played a significant role not only in Russian painting, "Fountains of Paradise" - a book by science fiction writer Arthur Clark, written under the impression of his painting "Elevator to Space".
A major role in the development of the direction of space painting was played by the popular magazine "Technology - Youth", which not only told its readers about the latest achievements, such as a rocket plane or a jetpack, but also held painting competitions related to science fiction since the late 60s, such as "The World of Tomorrow" or "Siberia Tomorrow".
On the territory of the former USSR, the space theme became especially popular in the 70s of the twentieth century. In 1973, on the big screens of a country called the Soviet Union, the first part of the sci-fi film-dilogue "Moscow - Cassiopeia" was released, in 1984 - the second, "Youths in the Universe." These films are undoubtedly the best in the line of fantasy films for children.
Such films, which depicted spaceships, showed alleged equipment, popularly heard ideas for the further development of technology (photon engines that allow developing and exceeding the speed of light). Films intended for children and teenagers conveyed to future artists a picture of tomorrow's technologies, new ideas and aspirations of mankind in a format that they could understand.
In 1977, the magazine "Technology - Youth" opens the competition "Time - Space - Man". For three years of the first stage of the competition, over 1000 paintings were sent to it. 200 submitted works were published on the pages of the magazine, 500 works of authorship were exhibited in art galleries related to science fiction and space. The competition lasted until the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, at that time, the very exploration of space and the conquest of the universe were "not on the topic of the day."
The theme of space in the late 80s - early 90s is not just dreams of star roads, this is a period when stereotypes in politics and art were broken, a period when the possibility of cooperation between the two great powers, the USSR and the USA, mutual understanding between the peoples of states, in a state of "cold war", began to see each other as allies. This is clearly seen in the joint work of Andrei Sokolov and Robert McCall. The cities of the future American artist, space stations and ships in his paintings are, in fact, an unembodied reality.
Cosmic reality and fantasy, artist's fiction and scientific knowledge. How close is the fiction to reality? In the works of Walter Myers, an American artist who is fond of astronomy, we see pictures of distant planets in our solar system.
Time, space, man. The theme of space, the conquest of the Universe is what will allow you to see the future through the eyes of an artist, to see distant worlds, spaceships and cities. Fantasy, a look through time and space - an idea that was relevant, and will remain so for a long time.
