{"id":68726,"date":"2019-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2019\/05\/06\/clouds-in-art-and-daily-life-their-contemplation-benefits-the-soul\/"},"modified":"2019-10-15T19:56:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T23:56:14","slug":"clouds-in-art-and-daily-life-their-contemplation-benefits-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2019\/05\/06\/clouds-in-art-and-daily-life-their-contemplation-benefits-the-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Clouds in Art and Daily Life, ‘Their Contemplation Benefits the Soul’"},"content":{"rendered":"

At designer Pamela Hovland’s instagram<\/a>, we were stunned by this image of a wall of “cloud studies”.\u00a0 To learn more about them, we googled her hashtags \u2014 #Kode #Bergen #johanchristiandahl \u2014 to discover Johan Christian Dahl<\/a>, one of Norway’s greatest landscape painters. The Kode Art Museum and Composer Homes in Norway has a cluster of 35 clouds \u2014”skystudie”.<\/p>\n

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There is something very moving about Dahl’s cloud studies: the careful noticing, and working to translate the ephemeral material he saw onto canvases, each one unique.<\/p>\n

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Skystudie by Johan Christian Dahl; photo by Dag Fosse \/ Kode Art Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He is not alone in his enchantment. We are reminded of artist Wendy Mark’s ethereal, modern 89 Clouds<\/a> done in collaboration of poet Mark Strand.\u00a0 And of the Cloud Appreciation Society<\/a>, whose manifesto<\/a> reads, in part:<\/p>\n

WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned\u00a0and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We think that they are Nature\u2019s poetry,\u00a0and the most egalitarian of her displays, since\u00a0everyone can have a fantastic view of them.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the\u00a0atmosphere\u2019s moods, and can be read like those of\u00a0a person\u2019s countenance.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We believe that clouds are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul.<\/strong>
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As we go about our day, we will take a moment here and there and LOOK.<\/p>\n

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Thanks again Pamela.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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