A brief history of the Art of the Sky
Our relationship with nature can be charted by the way artists over the centuries have depicted the sky in the
backgrounds of their paintings. Images from a talk by Lionel Playford, landscape artist, on clouds in Western art
at the Cloud Appreciation Society Sky Gathering on Lunday, May 2019
See Lionel's talk here
backgrounds of their paintings. Images from a talk by Lionel Playford, landscape artist, on clouds in Western art
at the Cloud Appreciation Society Sky Gathering on Lunday, May 2019
See Lionel's talk here
Paintings from the talk in presentation order:
From calm to stormy weather across the ages John Constable: Study of cirrus
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London Albrecht Durer: Pond in the woods
© British Museum, London Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Hunters in the snow
© Kunsthistorisches Vienna George Shaw: The National Game
© George Shaw Piero della Francesca: Baptism of Christ
© National Gallery, London Piero della Francesca: Legend of the True Cross
Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo Giovanni Bellini: The Transfiguration of Christ
© Museo di Capodimonte, Naples Titian: Bacchus and Ariadne
© National Gallery, London Nicolas Poussin: The Four Seasons - Summer
© Louvre, Paris Johannes Vermeer: View of Delft
© The Mauritshuis, The Hague Claude Monet: Regatta at Sainte-Adresse
© Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jacob van Ruisdael: Wheat Fields
© Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York John Constable: Weymouth Bay
© National Gallery, London John Constable: Bowleaze Cove, Weymouth
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London Joachim Patinir: Landscape with St Jerome
© Prado, Madrid Salvator Rosa: Rocky Landscape with huntsman
© Louvre, Paris JMW Turner:
Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps © Tate Britain, London JMW Turner: Rain clouds approaching over a landscape
© Tate Britain, London John Constable: Seascape Study: Boat and Stormy Sky,
20 July 1828 © Royal Academy, London John Constable: Pencil Sketch with notes
Len Tabner: Straithes, North Yorkshire coast
© Len Tabner Andrea Pozzo: Triumph of St Ignatius
Ste Ignazzio, Rome Jan Schueler: Sound of Sleat
© Jan Schueler Jan Schueler: Burning blues
© Jan Schueler Thomas Baldwin: A view from the balloon 1786
© The Royal Society Thomas Monnington: Battle Area 15 000ft
© Manchester Art Gallery Georgia O'Keefe: Sky above clouds
© Whitney Museum, New York Samuel Palmer: Shepherds under a full moon
© Ashmolean, Oxford John Atkinson Grimshaw: In peril
© Leeds Art Gallery Rene Magritte: Empire of Light II
© MoMA, New York David Abbey Paige: Tents, Rare Clouds
© David Abbey Paige Lionel Playford: Tropos 1 - Tropical Sunset Canary Islands
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Additional paintings by Lionel Playford. To see more images and to find out about Art and the Weather World, a collaboration with Climate Change scientists visit Lionel's blog: Art and Weather Lionel's North Pennine Moors 48 features as the header on this page Lionel Playford: North Pennine Moors 78
Drama over Rotherhope |
Lionel Playford: North Pennine Moors 19
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Lionel Playford: Tropos 3, English Channel
To find out about JMW Turner's connection to Tottenham visit turnerintottenham.uk