o pokojnom umetniku sve najbolje, vidi kako se lize sa kolegom umetnikom, sovjetsko maslo, ne seruckaj vise:
Later life and death[edit]
Leonov's 1967 painting
Near the Moon and a still from
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Leonov was an accomplished artist whose published books include albums of his artistic works and works he did in collaboration with his friend
Andrei Sokolov. Leonov took coloured pencils and paper into space, where he sketched the Earth, becoming the first
artist in space, and drew portraits of the Apollo astronauts who flew with him during the 1975
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
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Arthur C. Clarke wrote in his notes to his 1982 novel
2010: Odyssey Two that, after a 1968 screening of
2001: A Space Odyssey, Leonov pointed out to him that the alignment of the Moon, Earth, and Sun shown in the opening is essentially the same as that in Leonov's 1967 painting
Near the Moon, although the painting's diagonal framing of the scene was not replicated in the film. Clarke kept an autographed sketch of this painting—which Leonov made after the screening—hanging on his office wall.
[25] Clarke dedicated
2010: Odyssey Two to Leonov and Soviet physicist
Andrei Sakharov.
[26] The fictional spaceship in the book is named
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.
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