The Study of Nature: Between Detailed Observation, Philosophy of Nature and Plein Air Modernity

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Study of Nature: Between Detailed Observation, Philosophy of Nature and Plein Air Modernity

Original language description

The book's chapters focus on Mánes's detailed studies of organic and inorganic naturals (from the field of botany - flowers, trees; geology - formations of rocks, stones, rocks), but also on landscape motifs (especially images of the sky, clouds, light and meteorological phenomena amidst natural scenery). Josef Mánes was the son of Antonín Mánes, who held the position of professor of landscape specialty at the Academy of Fine Arts between 1836 and 1843. Under the supervision of his father, together with his siblings, sister Amalia and later his younger brother Quido, Josef Mánes sketched en plein air from the mid-1830s. Although Josef Mánes subsequently studied and professionally specialised in the hierarchically situated genre of history painting, he continuously devoted himself to the study of landscapes and natural landscapes with great intensity, often wandering and roaming through the countryside, among other things to capture diverse natural formations and phenomena in situ. In one of his sketching studies, Self-Portrait on the Road (1854), he depicted himself as 'a wanderer with a stick and a bag on his back', in which he probably carried a sketchbook, pencil, pen, ink and a few selected colours in tubes. A number of Mánes's sketches and paintings of smaller sizes have survived, many of which were made en plein air, often in the middle of a forest, in a meadow, or on mountain hills overlooking the horizon. Studies of naturals and landscapes were an intimate private interest for Josef Mánes, not directly tied to specific artistic commissions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-10562S" target="_blank" >GA19-10562S: The Painter Josef Mánes (1820-1871) - between Romanticism and Realism, Applied and Fine Arts, National and International, Academism and Modernity</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Flying Wax Wings. Josef Mánes (1820-1871)

ISBN

978-80-246-5782-0

Number of pages of the result

24

Pages from-to

73-97

Number of pages of the book

320

Publisher name

Karolinum Press

Place of publication

Praha

UT code for WoS chapter

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