In this video I present three works by William Turner, the great English Romantic painter, a fundamental figure for landscape painting who had a great influence on generations to come.
I thought of concentrating on three close works, dated between 1838 and 1844.
The valiant Téméraire towed to its last anchor to be demolished, 1838 oil on canvas (90.7x121.6 cm) 1838-1839 preserved in the National Gallery in London.
Slave traders who throw the dead and dying into the sea. The Slave Ship 1840 oil on canvas (91 × 122 cm) preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Rain, steam and speed, 1844 oil on canvas (91 × 122 cm) preserved in the National Gallery in London.
There are three paintings that in my opinion significantly represent the painter's full maturity and that can give us at least an introductory idea on the results of the artist's original and extraordinary research.
Turner was extremely prolific and since he was a boy he loved to write down the stimuli he collected during his many travels through sketches. The painter was also a great watercolorist and attracted by architecture. Painters such as Poussin and above all Lorraine exercised a decisive influence on him, who had in turn revolutionized the landscape.
With Turner, color and light take on a central role compared to that of drawing. From this point of view the English painter will become a reference for the Impressionists.
Furthermore, the rational perspective construction leaves the field to an ever more indefinite spatiality and in this sense Turner enters his extreme phase in a territory of pure abstraction.
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21 июл 2024
