The moon illuminates their creations! Al Ittihad Newspaper

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In 1971, British actor and author David Niven published his memoirs, Moon Moon Balloon. A magical and satirical book full of dramatic and tragic stories and intimate discussions between his characters about the past and the future in Hollywood's dream factory. The choice of the title was not arbitrary to coincide with the realization of the dream of the arrival of the man on the moon, even the author wanted to open his book also at the beginning of the poem " Who know "of the American poet Edward Stalin Cummings:
"Who knows if the moon
A balloon coming out of a subtle city
In a sky –
Full of beautiful people? "
"If you and I have to
Penetrated in them, on them
Insect and crowd in the ball
Why
Do not go up with all the beautiful people
Summit of houses, towers and clouds »

The poet E. Cummings Dashboard, in 1964, before the first man landed on the moon, did not realize his dream of reaching the ball, but Neven wanted to involve him in the creative celebration of the 39 humanity's access to the moon as a preamble to his book full of dreams and aspirations for the future, where there is no impossible word.
The impossible term was removed on July 20, 1969, when the world saw the first man land on the moon. American astronaut Neil Armstrong appeared on television as a black and white ghost, descending from the Apollo 11 probe to the Moon, to say his famous phrase, which has become an inspiring icon for all generations of different spheres of life: "A small step for the man, a giant step for the man." This moment is no longer impossible to reach the moon, and why not beyond the moon later?
Armstrong spent his first few minutes on the moon taking photos and collecting soil samples, joined by his colleague Aldrin. The astronauts conducted various exercises, such as experimenting with navigation methods such as kangaroo jumps, before planting the flag of America, and after the success of the experiment, many aesthetic creations celebrating the success of the flight In all parts of the world.
One of the most important books and references on the journey on the moon is the author of Moon, published by NASA-backed publisher Tom Adler (1968-1972), which contains images of the Apollo program with commentaries and explanations, ranging from the clarification of the first man's idea on the moon to his discussion and his maturity. The book evokes a rich mix of emotions, eagerness and speculation that besieged the mysterious companion of the land and its longtime neighbor. From a short story to Ka Ray Bradbury with the same title, he had written in 1969 pioneering space Manvia, and he describes the people of the song practically ready to take a trip to abandon his family, says the lyrics of the song in the first lines:
I will ride like a kite
The earth and the woman miss me a lot
I am isolated in space
I fly out of time

Moon in color
The photos taken by Armstrong were published in Al-Hayat magazine and quickly broadcast by many international media: a historic scientific and technological victory for humanity, and images of space and its astronauts and the moon shone around the world with stamps, billboards, etc. Apollo 11's mission of human imagination has influenced generations of creators and changed the conditions of modern fashion literature, art and trends.
NASA's space art program, which began in 1962 and continues to the present day, has released more visual artifacts saturated with information about space and space. the orbit surrounding the planet. Space travel is now more visible to the general public, although the product of the art is aimed at developing the national pride of the United States. During the space race, space travel was presented as a symbol of progress. Artists from around the world have created works that are particularly sensitive to the exploration of space. Over the past five decades, NASA's creativity program has discovered more than 100 artists interested in the context, events and results of the experiment.

Andy Warhol and Robert Rosenberg
The pioneer of the visual arts movement, Andy Warhol (1928-1987), a Czechoslovak artist better known for turning rubbish into works of philosophical significance with his silkscreen work, was influenced by pop art and the exploration of l & # 39; space. "Popular subjects can be part of the artist's painting," he says, using his genius as a race to technically celebrate Armstrong's journey to the moon. He created engraved versions of the astronauts during their mission and their spaceship, gilded in the form of a bar symbolizing the rocket moving towards the sky.
Warhol was one of six artists whose drawings had been taken to the moon during the Apollo 12 mission. This collection, dubbed "Moon Museum", was among the first collections to decorate the surface of the moon.
Robert Rosenberg (1925-2008), an badembly pioneer, collected and pasted photographs, such as his 1969 Stone Moon, and highlighted the colorful surface of the moon filled with multiple objects in an innovative 3D scene. In particular, as in the 1969 "Sky Garden" painting and the "local means" painting of 1970.

In Kawara: The moon in conceptual art
In Kawara (1932-2014), Japanese artist of conceptualism, reacts immediately to the lunar landing in his paintings, exhibited as part of the retrospective exhibition of his past works at Guggenheim. Kawara painted the paintings – which appeared in different colors of red, blue, gray and black – in reference to the date of their creation, along with pieces of newspaper titles.
Throughout his life, Kawara has created about 3,000 paintings that celebrate the arrival of the first man on the moon. Although the paintings have the same appearance, Kawara expresses, through the application of Kawara, the quality of the painting, the choice of colors and the newspaper titles cut and stuck in the frame, testifying to his personal experience and its growth in time and in history. Some giant paintings seem perfectly compatible with the takeoff and landing on the Moon, and even tell the Armstrong journey from end to end in unprecedented art form. The newspaper clippings of these dates include titles such as "A man landing on the moon" and "A man walking on the moon".
There is a clear relationship between the unique size of these paintings and the newspaper excerpts that accompany them. Reflecting the large dimensions of the paintings and their significance, she points out that for Kawara, the event deserved to be celebrated with creativity that required "a lot of material and moral investment," he said. declared.

More colors and shapes
NASA has helped artists gain access to information and the nature of their operations, resulting in the emergence of more than 2,000 works in recent decades. Most of the works, although representing representative astronaut figures, have been incorporated into the space art program. Clear images, paintings and sculptures of astronauts, satellites, spacecraft and the moon are spreading.
"The landing on the moon can be easily represented with illustrations, but the facts must be taken into account," said a NASA official. Thus, space travel has greatly increased the human consciousness of the dimensions and nature of space. In addition to the influence of NASA's aesthetic creations, the Apollo 11 mission was profoundly silent in the basic work and conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, and sensitized them to the need to present a realistic art based on discovered facts.
The pioneers of Earth Art, who emerged in the mid-1960s at the height of the space program, rejected the burgeoning trade in moonlight exploration and insisted on the need to respect the earth's landscape as a medium. artistic essential. The artists adopted images of the Earth, seen from space in its iconic landscape, saying, "Our planet is a distinct physical artistic being". The art of the Earth encompbades not only field works, but also the universe and the sky. It is the work of the visual artist and sculptor Nancy Holt (1938-2014), wife of the artist Robert Smithson (1938-1973), who has looked into d & # 39; other astronomical phenomena in addition to the Moon and sculpted a painting requiring scientific and physical information from scientists. Holt's best-known work is the Sun Domes, which she worked from 1973 to 1976 and is located in Utah. It consists of four hollow hard tubes aligned with the sun's axes during the Solstice. The 18-foot tubes have holes that guide visitors regarding the moon and towers.
Other artists on the planet, including artist, sculptor and painter Michelle Stewart, born in 1933, and artist and sculptor Smithson, have also produced ground-based works that capture the underground world of the moon and interact with the moon. history of the exploration of space. In his 1979 sculptures, Stuart describes his "coup signs" and his "stone tendencies", located in Oregon, related to the locations of sun and moon blows, as well as to 39, a natural circular crater filled with lunar crater-shaped stones. Like Stewart, Smithson also considered his work to be a little easier to understand the journey back in time and space, moving on to prehistory and primitive history. He created Lake Spiral Harbor in 1970, transforming a mine into a crescent-like spiral, it appears from a distance as a point on the surface of the arid moon, using stones and pale colors as a sign of silence and silence. Uniqueness of the topography of the moon.
Art critics influenced by the first human landing on the moon claim that the common representation of the unknown terrain of the moon evolves by recognizing the basic concepts of the moon's landscapes.

Always the moon
Romantics may argue that the powerful magic of the moon plays a secret role in many temptations of the beauty and desire of man in relation to his environment, such as wolves, screaming owls, vampires in the mythology and other beings whose nocturnal movements are badociated with the movements of the moon. After all, the man had to find a way to make a real trip to the moon by following his imagination, his instinct and his reason. Discover the god of ancient Egyptians and the particular personality that was present in ancient Chinese mythology. Just like the French novelist Jules Gabriel Verne wrote in 1865 his novel "From the Earth to the Moon", he says that Venice had just created a huge cannon to launch a rocket to three men in outer space. atmospheric and land on the moon.
The moon has been perceived in art, literature and folklore as another human habitat: it is a beloved character, who bears his name in tales, songs, movies and music. plastic art. In the force of gravity and in the tides, and still holds a lot to discover.