{"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 <\/p>\n 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 <\/p>\n …<\/p>\n