The experience of art is largely a matter of noticing, discovering and connecting details into a sense of wholeness. And those, in turn, helped make sense of the artist’s larger intent, which is almost never about just getting weather right, but rather, expressing something beyond tangible meteorological conditions. “It almost feels like he is trying to combine a different surface scene and a cloud scene” in a single image, Cappucci told me. The Little Ice Age was especially bad in Europe, but I am wondering whether the artist was almost trying to do the opposite. Cappucci These are clearly very high-altitude cirrus, or ice clouds, definitely not liquid.

Source: Washington Post July 16, 2021 13:46 UTC