Joseph Mallord William Turner, known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily
as William Turner, was an English Romantic landscape painter whose expressionistic studies of light,
colour and atmosphere were unmatched in their range and
sublimity. Read here.
Turner
took classical genres and scenes - the stately landscape in well-designed
compositions and historical events - and infused them with a new dynamic in
painting. He reflected on the increasing importance of individual experience in
the era of the Enlightenment, where the perceptions of human beings led to
exalted personal moments and sublime interactions with nature. Through this
dedication to rendering heightened states of consciousness and being, he helped
define the cross-disciplinary artistic movement of Romanticism, setting
the stage for later developments in painting subjective experiences that would
lead to Impressionism. In some of his later works especially, Turner
responded to the arrival of the modern era by making the contraptions (= tools,
devices) of human invention powerfully, sometimes threateningly, present.
Read here.
Turner, as well as Wordsworth, created
embodiments of Burke's descriptions of the sublime that make
explicit his notion of a subjective, experiential world. Read here.
On show for the first time in Rome, a collection of exclusive works by the
British artist, from 22 March to 26 August 2018 at the Chiostro del
Bramante. The exhibition includes more than 90 works, counting sketches, studies, watercolours, drawings and a selection of oils never shown
before in Italy, all displayed in chronological order to document the evolution
of Turner's style.
The exhibition reflects a more intimate side of Turner’s works that were in
a private collection until donated to England and given to maintenance at the
Tate. Many of the works on display come from the artist's personal studio and
were created over the years for his "own delight", according to critic John
Ruskin. They show a narrative of his emotions and places he visited during his
habitual working method, which was to work for six months outside while
travelling open air during the summer and in winter, working from memory.
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