John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and ScienceA&C Black, 1999 M01 1 - 288 páginas John Constable is arguably the most accomplished painter of English skies and weather of all time. For Constable, the sky was the keynote, the standard of scale and the chief organ of sentiment in a landscape painting. But how far did he understand the workings of the forces of nature which created his favourite cumulus clouds, portrayed in so many of his skies over the landscapes of Hampstead Heath, Salisbury and Suffolk? And were the skies he painted scientifically accurate? In this lucid and accessible study, John Thornes provides a meteorological framework for reading the skies of landscape art, compares Constable's skies to those produced by other artists from the middle ages to the nineteenth century, analyses Constable's own meteorological understanding, and examines the development of his painted skies. In so doing he provides fresh evidence to identify the year of painting of some of Constable's previously undated cloud studies. |
Contenido
Acknowledgements 88 | 8 |
Introduction | 17 |
John Constables meteorological understanding | 51 |
Evolution of the skies in Constables art | 93 |
The influence of art and science on Constables skies | 153 |
Richard Wilson 17131482 Alexander Cozens 171786 | 176 |
A fusion of art and science | 199 |
Sky studies without weather inscriptions | 275 |
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Términos y frases comunes
agreement Plate Alexander Cozens appear artists atmosphere Badt Belville blue bright Cary catalogue Chapter cirrus Claude Climate of London CLOUD COMMENTS Howard cloud perspective Cloud Study colour COMMENTS Howard Stratford Constable wrote Constable's inscription Constable's skies Cowe cumulus clouds Dedham Dedham Vale discussed droplets effects English Landscape Scenery exhibited Fisher Fleming-Williams Forster Hampstead Heath Hay Wain historical weather records Hoozee horizon Howard's cloud classification Ibid John Constable John Constable 1845 John Constable's Clouds July landscape art landscape painting Leslie light looking Luke Howard meteorological morning nature Nicolas Poussin noon observations October oil on paper Old Sarum Paul Mellon pure sky studies RAIN CLOUD COMMENTS Reynolds Royal Academy Rubens Ruisdael Ruskin Salisbury Cathedral secondary bow September 1821 showers sketches sky and L/S stormy Stour stratus sunset Tate Gallery TEMP temperature Thornes Turner V&A Picture Library visible watercolour weather inscriptions West wind direction WIND PRES