Skyscapes

Artists have long been fascinated with the unknowable expanses of the skies above. Religious depictions of the heavens have been commonplace since Renaissance times, such as Michaelangelo's “Creation of Man” fresco at the Sistine Chapel, which depicts God descending on a bed of clouds to give life to Adam. Later, René Magritte's Surrealist paintings of fluffy, impossibly shaped clouds challenged viewers perspectives on reality and sparked an artistic movement. Below, get lost in ambient contemporary skyscapes that capture the clouds, skies, and horizon lines in various mediums, from abstract painting to Polaroid photography.