Turner: Painting The Fighting Temeraire | National Gallery 

Jasmine Bird indeed, he needs to calm down and be more measured which would make it much more enjoyable to listen to, I feel out of breath can’t listen anymore......😼

@@janebrettell1737 ........Totally agree Jane - Mr Morgan is a dreadful presenter and I stopped watching immediately after his [pointless] self-introduction.

@@thesoultwins72 That presentation was a disaster. "Here we can see there is smoke" "Now we know that this is water.. Here is Turner showing us the effects of light on water.." Terrible delivery. Meaningless content. Perfect encapsulation of "adult learning experience programming" British institutions nowadays.

@@powerbite92 .....It's absolutely astonishing just how poor most people are at making a relatively simple presentation. Yet according to studies on what the most important [business] competencies are - presentation skills ranks number 4!

Please, your knowledge of subject is obviously comprehensive but you need some presentational skills. Accept training.

Yes, absolutely. Wonderful, superfluous vernacular. Top bloke, without a doubt.

I agree. His staccato type delivery takes my attention away from what he is saying. Just wanted him to shut up and let me interpret the painting myself. @@stewartbrands

Stating the obvious is a fine art indeed. I love it when condescension is used to inform us of things that our own eyes are viewing. Wikipedia are shaking in their boots after this insightful presentation.

Passion has nothing to do with money.

Q brought me here

It's a good movie that stimulates one to know more!

Um, I actually enjoyed his conducting, too bad the music is off in the video.😊

Scuttled is a deliberate sinking. This ship is being towed to the breakers yard. Just saying...

@@softailrider3129 You’re right. My bad.

That is very nice. Do you have any other life long loves in art?

It reminds me of the opening paragraph of The Guns of August. The passing of an era

A student teacher in an art class during my final semester in high school introduced me to Turner and it was love at first sight. Many, many years later I got to see "Temeraire" in person and started to cry when I stood in front of it. My one and only trip to England - I had two particular art goals, to see "Temeraire" and Millais' "Ophelia" which my senior honors English introduced me to that same semester. (I'm now 71.)

I was lucky enough to stand a few inches from a few Turner's. I saw nothing interesting.

The first thing that came into my mind when I saw this painting was that the big ship towed along by the tug looked like a phantom ship ...a ghost of itself already.

I must confess, I had to look up what is meant by "staccato." Having done so, You have perfectly used it. Thank you for your unintended education, haha. For me, it was one of those things where I sensed something but wasnt able to explain....until your comment. I say again, Thank you. But the painting...WOW is that supreme.

Indeed and a little 'shouty' down .Needs to ease up a tad . it's not easy to do

Yeah what was that about? Maybe he battles a stutter

@@classicartfoundation639 I like his presentation style. Just not suited to this miserable painting.

@@ezicarus8216 You don’t know very much about art do you ……. And I will say no more than that …………

@@markmeade2937 I know as much as the limitations of being human allows, if you too have a modest understanding of the history of art you may understand why I hate Turner and I have given him many opportunities, seeing many in person, up close. I would concede his greatness on this point, I am initially repulsed then bored by his paintings and evoking such a strong emotion through paint may very well prove his greatness. I prefer Monet, Cezanne and even Klimts impressionism, Gustav is lesser known for this style but I like it's rawness and subdued pallet in comparison to Monet, although more refined and restricted than Cezanne, it is these three laid the path to today, not the misery of Turner, Constable and the Dutch Golden age of browns mixed with depression. What contemporary painting style do you enjoy today Mr Meade? If you look at Turner's raw ability laid bare in Going To Sea (1832) you may see what I see in every Turner. An oddly composed, uninspiringly sketched painting, unfortunately highlighting new softened interpretations of light with a blanket fog does not impress me. Nearly every single painting, covered in fog. What really jars me about Turner is his incorrect perspective, it is not misplaced in a jazz or golden ratio way, intelligently bringing focus to an area, it is always focusing attention to a blank boring part of the canvas, and his attempts at Venetian inspired city scapes do the masters a great disservice, in modern Rome 1839 and the decline of the Carthaginian empire the perspective is disturbingly incorrect for a draghtsman. If he dug deeper, maybe he could have used the techniques of the great artists he was impersonating, namely a pin hole camera and a ruler. It shows an over confidence and premature technical ability. He idolised Claude Lorrain, requesting his own Dido building Carthage be hung alongside Lorrain on his death, Turner's attempt is paradoxical exposed as vastly inferior. Lorrain was an undisputed master and his perspective was flawless, he had a deep and meaningful understanding of the mechanics of what is depicted. Turner did not. Not only am I repulsed by Turner's paintings, he was not someone I would have been friends with, after his Royal Academy ascension, he took the same honor away from Constable, voting against his application to join, three times. Not only was his ascension at just 14, damaging to his continued development as a great artist, he actively restricted an undeniably talented artists exposure, proliferation and opportunities. Not nice.

@@ezicarus8216 I’m just not going to agree with you, i was introduced to Turner and John Constable at an early age, around 8 years old , been to the National Gallery and have seen there work close up and love it, both there seascapes and landscapes. I love the way there paint is use to convey light and texture and as Turner got older the more abstract he became. I love Rubens , Sargent, Hans Holbein and Van Gogh . I respect your point but I’m afraid I have to disagree on this one , but I will respect your point of view and leave it at that

@@ezicarus8216 To me looking at a painting and the way it makes you feel both emotionally and the way the painting is technically painted , the colours used and whether it’s a landscape, seascape , still life or portrait is how I see a painting, drawing or pastel . I love pen and ink drawings too. All artists are different but wonderful, they bring many things to life in there artwork and that is why I have certain favourites. I have seen some very disrespectful comments on RU-vid and we are all different, o see your point and respect that point but for me a painting must move me emotionally when I look at it and both Turner and Constable do that for me. To others they don’t but me personal preference are those two great painters . Walking into the National Gallery is an explosion of colour and light , the beauty of an artist eye forever in time and space . 👍

but like the ship, taken apart, analysed so we can built upon what came before, nothing went to waste :)

An excellent interpretation of this painting

You anticipated my fascination perfectly! 50 + years ago Turner mesmerized me and I went to the Tate ASAP. This presentation reawakened my enthusiasm and Judy Egerton's book would be terrific. Thanks so much.

@@ezicarus8216 He did about a dozen paintings, but not Turner. He did admire Turner the most, followed by I think Renoir

He certainly does!

Same here. Im on a James Bond binge and this painting caught my eye and I had to learn more. :)

A most interesting remark!

Wait, didn´t the one ''big'' Krakatoa eruption take place in the 1880s?

Mount Tambora in Indonesia. 1815.

The world needs more humans like him. Passionate.

Same. He’s buzzed

Fantastic idea!! That "wood" have been amazing. :P

I'd have to agree, it would be marking the shallows or a shoal to warn boatmen to keep in the channel.

The dark object. Important, maybe. It is a buoy. Importantly, if you zoom into focus on it, you can see that it is itself producing it's own wake and a bow-wave. That indicates that the tug was itself pulling the Temeraire against the tide, itself signalled as maybe fighting the passage of time, fighting the natural forces that run against us all no matter how busy we are? I strongly recommend seeing the picture in real life. On the wall, it singularly lights up the entire wall of many tens of great works. On it's own one's eyes are drawn to the luminosity of the sunset/rise?? You can't not look straight at it.