Art world links which caught my eye…
Knud Baade “Study of Clouds in Moonlight” 1848
On Norwegian artist Knud Baade (March 28, 1808–November 24, 1879), who cracked the artistic code to give cloudscapes their appropriate majesty.
But much of it is due to the entwined history of vision and consciousness — it is consciousness, not optics, that ultimately renders the breathtaking beauty of a sunset. Unlike a camera lens, the human eye moves dynamically across a scene, taking in not a single image but a multitude of images with varying exposures and color balances, which the brain then composites and superimposes near-instantaneously into the sunset you see.
A camera paints with optics, but an artist paints with consciousness.
Too poor to afford finishing his education at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Baade dropped out at the dawn of his twenties and began his career painting traditional landscapes and portraits — technically good, unexceptional paintings that put food on his table. He moved with his father to a small parish in the Norwegian countryside, where he walked long hours under the open skies, drinking in the majesty of the mountains and the fjords.
And then, in his mid-thirties, something broke open in him. He looked up, looked in, and, a year before the invention of photography, began painting transcendent cloudscapes — storms and sunsets, wisps of cirrus over treetops and stratus blankets over the Moon.
Knud Baade “Cloud Study” 1850
Read the full article here: THE MARGINALIAN – The Sky and the Soul: 19th-Century Norwegian Artist Knud Baade’s Transcendent Cloudscapes
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