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Post by inconceivable on Oct 8, 2008 18:37:58 GMT -4
Does anyone know where I can get some high resolution scans of Alan Bean paintings? Has anyone found any hidden messages in the Alan Bean paintings?
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Post by echnaton on Oct 8, 2008 19:06:01 GMT -4
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Post by Nowhere Man on Oct 8, 2008 20:00:21 GMT -4
Hidden messages? If anyone has found any, they've been spirited away by eeeevil gummit agents for re-education, because I've never heard of any messages.
Dunno if it's still in print, but the book Apollo by Alan Bean (1998, Greenwich Workshop Press, ISBN 0-86713-050-4) is loaded with reproductions of his paintings. 1998, probably not still in print but maybe still available. Try
The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. One Greenwich Place P.O. Box 875 Shelton, CT 06484-0875
Fred
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Post by gillianren on Oct 8, 2008 21:20:29 GMT -4
I've seen some of them in person. Never noticed any messages; I'll have to ask our local gallery owner.
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Post by laurel on Oct 8, 2008 21:26:26 GMT -4
www.alanbeangallery.com/dualperson-story.htmlThis painting has a cluster of rocks in it that have a symbolic meaning; not a "hidden message" per se, but not something that would be immediately obvious to someone looking at the painting. Richard Hoagland thinks Alan Bean's paintings depict artificial structures on the Moon because, for one thing, they contain "rainbow colors." There's a whole page on the Lunar Anomalies site about it. This article, however, says, "Bean realized he needed colors to convey the emotions of experiencing life outside the earth." He's also influenced by Monet, whose paintings were very colorful of course. www.austin360.com/arts/content/arts/stories/2008/09/0928moonart.htmlPeople can find hidden messages in anything if they're determined to find them.
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 8, 2008 22:07:36 GMT -4
I'm a bit of an artist/painter myself, and I agree totally with that bit about colours expressing emotion. Like Monet, look at Van Gogh's works.
That's part of what art is all about. Or else why not just take a photograph instead?
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Post by LunarOrbit on Oct 8, 2008 22:40:29 GMT -4
Bean has put real moon dust into his paintings. What does that tell you?
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Post by laurel on Oct 8, 2008 22:48:09 GMT -4
Hidden messages? If anyone has found any, they've been spirited away by eeeevil gummit agents for re-education, because I've never heard of any messages. Dunno if it's still in print, but the book Apollo by Alan Bean (1998, Greenwich Workshop Press, ISBN 0-86713-050-4) is loaded with reproductions of his paintings. 1998, probably not still in print but maybe still available. Try The Greenwich Workshop, Inc. One Greenwich Place P.O. Box 875 Shelton, CT 06484-0875 Fred It's available from Amazon.
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Post by Al Johnston on Oct 9, 2008 5:25:30 GMT -4
I'm a bit of an artist/painter myself, and I agree totally with that bit about colours expressing emotion. Like Monet, look at Van Gogh's works. That's part of what art is all about. Or else why not just take a photograph instead? Ahem! Some of us would contend quite vigorously that photography is an art form itself ;D
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Post by laurel on Oct 9, 2008 15:38:44 GMT -4
Inconceivable, why do you think there would be hidden messages in Alan Bean's paintings?
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Post by raven on Oct 9, 2008 18:16:17 GMT -4
If you take all the areas 1 millimeter in diameter of paint that are of 135 grey 1.5 millimeters in diameter, and all the paint chips of 134 grey, and add them together, you get a number, that when converted to binary and split into 8 number sequences, and then converted to ASCII, you get a message that says "Man will never space walk", backwards. And if you believe that. . .
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Post by JayUtah on Oct 9, 2008 18:46:57 GMT -4
Dang, I tried it and all I get is "Paul is dead, Paul is dead..."
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 9, 2008 21:07:27 GMT -4
I'm a bit of an artist/painter myself, and I agree totally with that bit about colours expressing emotion. Like Monet, look at Van Gogh's works. That's part of what art is all about. Or else why not just take a photograph instead? Ahem! Some of us would contend quite vigorously that photography is an art form itself ;D Of course it is. I should have said "That's part of what painting is all about". Sorry 'bout that.
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 9, 2008 21:10:01 GMT -4
Dang, I tried it and all I get is "Paul is dead, Paul is dead..." I got a busy signal.
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Post by BertL on Oct 10, 2008 4:56:01 GMT -4
Strange. I tried it as well, and I got "nothing to see here, move along". Maybe I used a different Alan Bean painting.
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