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Exhibition Review
Tacita Dean: LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE. London
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 666-669
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Reviewer:
Paterson, Dominic (Paterson, Dominic)
Subjects
artists:
Dean, Tacita / Twombly, Cy / Morandi, Giorgio / Merz, Mario / Cunningham, Merce / Cage, John / Oldenburg, Claes / Hockney, David / Mehretu, Julie / Hilliard, Nicholas / Demand, Thomas / Horn, Roni / Tillmans, Wolfgang / Barbari, Jacopo de' / John, Gwen / Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon / Nash, Paul
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Videos / Photographs / Prints / Drawings / Documents / Books / Paintings
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain / National Portrait Gallery, London, Great Britain / Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Landscapes (visual works) / Portraits / Still lifes / Studios (work spaces) / Artists' books / Actors and actresses / Curators / Clouds / Birds / John the Baptist, Saint / Oedipus / Antigone / Blind (people) / Poetry / Sublime
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Still from Mario Merz, by Tacita Dean. 2002. 16mm. colour film. (Courtesy the artist; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of GAETA (fifty photographs plus one), by Tacita Dean. 2015. Photographs and cibachromes. Dimensions variable. (Courtesy the artist; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Still from His Picture in Little, by Tacita Dean. 2017. 35mm. colour anamorphic film, reduced to spherical 16mm. for exhibition as miniature. (Courtesy the artist; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
4. Still from Antigone, by Tacita Dean. 2018. Two synchronised 35mm. colour anamorphic films. (Courtesy the artist; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Article
Playing with clouds
08/2011 | 1301 | 153
Pages: 518-520
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Author:
Frugoni, Chiara (Frugoni, Chiara)
Subjects
artists:
Giotto
buildings:
Basilica di San Francesco, Assisi, Italy
dates:
1250-1299
print:
Frescoes
subjects:
Frescoes / Italian painting / Churches / Christian iconography / Francis of Assisi, Saint
subjects:
Clouds
works:
Legend of Saint Francis (Upper Church of San Francesco, Assisi)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. St Sebastian, by Andrea Mantegna. c.1460. Tempera on panel, 68 by 30 cm. (Kunst­historisches Museum, Vienna).
Western art unattributed:
6. Detail of Fig.7 showing the face in the cloud. (Copyright Halta Definizione, Novara).
Western art unattributed:
7. The death of St Francis of Assisi. c.1288–92. Fresco. (Upper church, Basilica of S. Francesco, Assisi; courtesy of Sacro Convento Assisi).
Article
Constable's Clouds
11/1979 | 920 | 121
Pages: 697-699+701-704
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Author:
Thornes, John (Thornes, John)
Subjects
artists:
Constable, John
dates:
1800-1849
places:
England
sources:
Howard, Luke
subjects:
British painting / Landscapes (visual works)
subjects:
Studies (visual works) / Clouds
subjects:
Howard, Luke
subjects:
Meteorology
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Small Cumulus Clouds in a Westerly Airstream, September 11th 1821, by John Constable. (Royal Academy).
Attributed works:
23. Inscription on the Recto of Fig. 22. [Small Cumulus Clouds in a Westerly Airstream, September 11th 1821, by John Constable. (Royal Academy).]
Attributed works:
24. Sky and Landscape with Distant Cumulus, September 27th 1821, by John Constable. (Royal Academy).
Attributed works:
25. Inscription on the Recto of Fig. 24. [Sky and Landscape with Distant Cumulus, September 27th 1821, by John Constable. (Royal Academy).]
Attributed works:
26 & 27. Plates from Constable's copy of Forster's Researches about Atmospheric Phaenomena (Tate Gallery). The original explanations are: Fig. 26 No. 1 represents a Comoid Cirrus. This is the variety called the Mare's Tail. No. 2 A Cirrus lengthened out into a long pointed tail, above is a long straight Linear Cirrus. No. 3 are Cumuli; others are seen below them in the distance. Fig. 27. No. 1 Another Cirrus figured like a Cyma of Architecture. No. 2 Lines of Cirrostratus. No. 3 The same cloud breaking out into Cirrocumulus for being influenced by the Cumulostratus below. No. 4 Cumulostratus. Many of the long Cirrostrati alight on its summits.
Book Review
John Constable's Clouds
07/1951 | 580 | 93
Pages: 240-241
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Reviewer:
Grigson, Geoffrey (Grigson, Geoffrey)
Subjects
artists:
Constable, John
dates:
1800-1849
places:
England
subjects:
British painting / Landscapes (visual works) / Formal analysis
subjects:
Clouds
subjects:
Meteorology
Reviewed Items
subjects:
John Constable's Clouds | author: Badt, Kurt