Even writers of antiquity recommended the observation of clouds as stimulus for artistic image-finding processes. As constant shape-shifters, clouds stimulate not only figurative viewing but also the abstraction in modern art. Clouds are thus part of the "material fabric of the pictorial process" (Hubert Damisch). Based on this observation, the lecture will examine aesthetic aspects in the production of cloud images in contemporary art by Jana Sterbak, Diana Thater and others.
Anne Röhl is a research associate at the University of Siegen.