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The momentum carried her through two more variations on the same idea, Sky Above Clouds II and Sky Above Clouds III, with both works twice the size of the first. The final, fourth work in this cycle, Sky Above Clouds IV, is the largest painting ever created by the artist, at two meters (eight feet) high and seven meters (24 feet) wide. O'Keeffe ...
A cloudscape painting by Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael. In art, a cloudscape is the depiction of a view of clouds or the sky.Usually, as in the examples seen here, the clouds are depicted as viewed from the earth, often including just enough of a landscape to suggest scale, orientation, weather conditions, and distance (through the application of the technique of aerial perspective).
[6] [10] The artwork comprises 31 clouds, with 22 on the ceiling, five on the right side wall and four on the left side wall. [9] [11] [12] The largest of these has a surface area of 80 m 2 (860 sq ft) and a weight of approximately 2.3 tonnes (2.5 short tons). [9] Ladders exist in the ceiling space, allowing people to climb through the clouds. [7]
In 1993, the painting was moved to the city's St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, returning to Kelvingrove for the latter's reopening in July 2006. In 2022, the painting was loaned for a five-month period to The Auckland Project in Bishop Auckland, County Durham to be displayed alongside El Greco's painting of Christ of the Cross. [10]
The aerial cloudscapes painted by Georgia O'Keeffe in the 1960s and 1970s are a special case. Many of them are not landscapes at all, since they don't show any land. They depict images of clouds viewed from above, suspended in blue sky, with the land below nowhere to be seen; it is the view of clouds regarded at a downward and sideways angle, as from the window of an airplane.
After recounting the legend [12] he remarks that "the preceding monks hoped to go to heaven without leaving the earth, to find 'the place where the sky and the earth touch,' and open the mysterious gateway which separates this world from the other. Such is the cosmographical notion of the universe; it is always the terrestrial valley crowned by ...
A painting by British artist George Stubbs is expected to sell for up to £2 million ($2.5 million) in London next week, as it comes to auction for the first time in more than 50 years.. The 18th ...
28 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 35 in (720 mm × 890 mm) Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia View of Cotopaxi: 1857: Oil on canvas: 62.2 × 92.7 cm: Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois View on the Magdalena River: 1857: Oil on canvas: 23 + 3 ⁄ 4 in × 36 in (600 mm × 910 mm) Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA: Niagara: 1857: Oil on canvas: 106.5 × ...