Yuri Gagarin - Cosmonaut 1961 Watercolor
by Ian Gledhill
Title
Yuri Gagarin - Cosmonaut 1961 Watercolor
Artist
Ian Gledhill
Medium
Painting - Drawing - Painting - Mixed Media
Description
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич.. 9 March 1934 - 27 March 1968) was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission (which ended in a fatal crash).
Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was later named after him. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed. The Yuri Gagarin Medal is awarded in his honour.
Drawn with digital graphics using soft pencil and watercolor on canvas.
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October 26th, 2016
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