Clouds by Richard Hamblyn

Author:Richard Hamblyn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reaktion Books

Of two objects at equal height, that which is the farthest off will appear the lowest . . . This happens also when, on account of the rays of the setting or rising sun a dark cloud appears higher than another which is light.6

Yet Leonardo’s perspectival cloud figures were conspicuously generic, their cotton-wool shapes more or less unrelated to the complex forms that appear in clouded skies. The pictorial evolution of clouds in Western art has been outlined many times, most recently by John E. Thornes, who argued that most clouds painted before the seventeenth century (‘when the sky began to inspire artists for its own sake’) were decorative entities with few formal or structural relations to the images they happened to appear in.7 As the critic John Ruskin had complained in the first instalment of Modern Painters (1843),

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