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From 'The Meterological Odyssey of Vincent van Gogh,' by
Stanley David Gedzelman, in Volume 23, Number 1, of Leonardo, the
journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and
Technology, published in Berkeley, California. Gedzelman, a professor
of meterology at City College in New York City, analyzed the cloud
formations in 900 of Van Gogh's paintings. The table shows the
relative frequency of various cloud types in works from each of the
painter's periods.
According to Gedzelman, the turning point in van Gogh's depictions of
clouds came in 1888 at Arles, where the painter "deposed stratus and
altostratus, crowning cumulus as the predominant cloud form."
Gedzelman says that "van Gogh's cumulus remained innocuous until June
1889, when he discovered at Saint-Remy how explosively tectonic clouds
could be."
[found in Harpers, May 1991]
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