Paul Van Hoeydonck
Paul Van Hoeydonck (Belgium, 1925) is a multidisciplinary artist best known for his sculpture 'Fallen Astronaut,' placed on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission. His work spans painting, drawing, and sculpture, often exploring themes of space, technology, and human ambition in the cosmos.

What is pop-art?
Pop Art is an art movement that began in Britain in 1955 and in the late 1950s in the U.S. It challenged traditional fine arts by incorporating imagery from popular culture, such as news, advertising, and comic books. Pop Art often isolates and recontextualizes materials, combining them with unrelated elements. The movement is more about the attitudes and ideas that inspired it than the specific art itself. Pop Art is seen as a reaction against the dominant ideas of Abstract Expressionism, bringing everyday consumer culture into the realm of fine art.