KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND ASTRONAUT, ALAN BEAN, DOES MORE THAN JUST TALK ABOUT THE MOON, HE PAINTS PICTURES ABOUT THE MOON: from Eagles Talent Speakers Bureau
Alan Bean was an astronaut who had the best view of the earth…from the moon. Now Alan is able to relive those years in space and on the moon through his paintings.
In July, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington will mount a show of 45 works of astronaut turned artist, and will release a book of reproductions of his paintings.
The New York Times posted a great article (”An Astronaut Goes From Walking on the Moon to Painting It“) about Alan Bean, the great former astronaut and professional speaker. Here’s a short excerpt and link to the article:
“It has been nearly 40 years since Alan L. Bean walked on the moon as an Apollo astronaut, but he still wrestles with the experience every day, trying to recapture what he and other astronauts saw and felt in the medium of paint.”
“Becoming a painter has been a long slog for Mr. Bean, who describes himself as a slow learner. He has had to give up the hyper-rational way of seeing the world he had learned as a Navy test pilot and engineer. He has trained himself to see things not as they are but as they feel to him, to translate emotions into colors and to resist his scientific urges.” Read the whole article here.
View some of his paintings here.
If you are interested in having Alan Bean make your next event out of this world, contact Eagles Talent Speakers Bureau by phone at 1-800-345-5607 or visit us online at www.EaglesTalent.com.
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