A brief history of weather in European landscape art

Thornes, John E.

doi:10.1002/j.1477-8696.2000.tb04022.x

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“…Visual art also witnesses human interest in solar observations. This is especially true from the seventeenth century on, when the sun, the sky and atmospheric phenomena became the subject of particular attention to landscape painters (Thornes 2000). This also applies to the artists who express a significant interest in eclipses (Pasachoff and Olson 2014) and to the painters strongly influenced by the astronomical discoveries of their time as well (Leach 2016).…”

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A Study Regarding the Representation of the Sun in Young Children’s Spontaneous Drawings

Villarroel

Villanueva

2017

Social Sciences

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Drawing has historically been the preeminent way of portraying the observations of the sun. The study of the early stages of the development of astronomical thought and the examination of human graphic expression indicate this. With that in mind, it is interesting to note that young children very frequently draw the sun in their spontaneous depictions and, also, that there are preliminary indications that this fact might be related to their conceptual development. This study examines 279 pictures that children aged 4 to 8 spontaneously depicted, paying particular attention to their solar representations and the relationship that they have with other pictorial elements. The data is also related to children's understanding of the inanimate nature of the sun. The results lend weight to the assumption that children do not draw the sun without intent and allow for adding fresh data to the growing body of research showing the importance of considering young children's graphical expression when it comes to gaining insight into their understanding regarding natural phenomena.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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A Study Regarding the Representation of the Sun in Young Children’s Spontaneous Drawings

Villarroel

Villanueva

2017

Social Sciences

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“…However, prior to the advent of such technology drawings and paintings were the only ways that humans could depict weather conditions in a visual form. Despite thousands of images being produced, very few studies of the history of the sky in paintings have been undertaken (Thornes, 2000).…”

Section: Weather In Figurative Artsmentioning

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Visualization of the weather—past and present

Keeling¹

2010

Meteorological Applications

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All consumers of the media are seeking information. The weather forecast is merely one part of this media. Initially, an artist's visual interpretation of weather conditions (real or imagined), the weather forecast has now evolved into the all-encompassing visual and audio experience viewed through television today, although weather images continue to illicit emotions from viewers similar to those found when viewing other works of art. This paper examines how the weather has been visualized in times past, and how these techniques have been employed, culminating in the television weather forecast of today.

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“…That the tornado is located so prominently in the tapestry's cen- ter and is so dominant in structure that the eye is drawn to it perhaps emphasizes its symbolic texture. Thornes (2000) pointed out that weather features, such as clouds, are not just decorative objects but "constituted one of the elements of pictorial semiotics, a graph whose functions varied over time." It is a known fact that the transformation of pictorial weather features in art from religious symbols to natural phenomena started in the Renaissance period.…”

Section: Weather Features On the Tapestrymentioning

confidence: 99%