William Turner will appear on the banknote 20 pounds
ARTinvestment.RU   26 апреля 2016

A portrait of world famous British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner can be seen at 20-фунтовой bill from 2020

Joseph Mallord William Turner will be the "face" of the new banknote 20 pounds. This is the first British artist to be awarded such an honor.

the New banknotes will enter circulation in 2020. They are printed on polymer plastic: the Bank of England argues that this material stays clean longer and is more secure than the usual paper notes. Turner is a 20-фунтовой bill the Scottish economist Adam Smith. But before that "face" the same notes were William Shakespeare, physicist Michael Faraday and the composer Edward Elgar.

a New hero twenty pounds British chose by voting. For the first time in our practice the Bank of England gave the right to citizens to propose candidates is important for UK historical figures whom they would like to see on the banknote. About 30 thousand people eventually came forward 590 candidates. Among them were Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Hepworth, Charlie Chaplin, Francis bacon and others. Of nearly six hundred candidates William Turner got into a brief list. And have any of these chosen heroes of the expert panel opted for a British artist who, in her opinion, "had the most lasting and profound impact on British society". The official statement was made Bank of England chief mark Carney (Mark Carney) together with artist Tracey Emin.

On the banknote are printed "Portrait" of 1799, on which Turner himself was captured at the age of 23-24 years. Next to him on the bill will be placed phrase of an artist Light is therefore colour ("Light color"), spoken at a lecture at the Royal Academy in 1818. The background will be the popular and beloved by the Turner's painting "Last voyage of the frigate "Brave"". It depicts a ship that played a key role in the victory of Nelson at Trafalgar in 1805. Complete image signed by the artist — variant, taken with his will. According to the last will of Turner, many of his paintings were donated to the people of England.

the news of the election of Turner "face" of 20-фунтовой bills prompted us to find out what other artists are found on banknotes of different countries. As it turned out, the painters and sculptors are often printed on the bills with presidents and kings — so great to see their contribution to the history of a country. For example, on the banknote of 20 000 Armenian drams shows the main national artist Martiros Saryan, and the smallest bill is 1 Georgian lari — with the portrait Niko Pirosmani.

On the note of the value 1 000 NOK emblazoned, as you can guess, Edvard Munch. With regard to the national currency of Switzerland — Swiss franc — the representatives of creative professions have not left any chance to the politicians. 10-франковой the banknote we see the architect Le Corbusier, 50-франковой — Dadaist painter and sculptor Sophie Tauber-Арп, and 100-франковой bill placed a portrait of Alberto Giacometti.

On the banknote of 10 Romanian lei printed portrait of one of the major Romanian painters, Nicolae Grigorescu. And in 1990-е on a banknote face value of 500 lei was a portrait of the world famous Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi. On the banknote of BGN 5 depicts a Bulgarian artist and stage designer, one of the main representatives of Bulgarian modernism, Ivan Milev. The currency of Serbia — Serbian Dinar — is decorated with a portrait of the national artist of Hope Petrovich (on the bill 200 dinars).

Many artists unfortunately, we "lost" in 2002, after the transition of a number of European countries to a single currency, the Euro. While in Belgium there were still Belgian francs, their "persons" were the portraits of three artists: 100 francs banknote was decorated with a portrait of the impressionist James Ensor, the banknote 500 francs was surrealist rené Magritte, and 1 000-франковой bill — expressionist Constant permeke.

the Dominance of the people of art was, of course, on the Italian Lira. The famous Italian sculptor Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini was placed on the banknote of 50 000 lire. 100 000 Lira deservedly wore the greatest artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Oh and 500 000 Italian lire was a portrait of Raphael. It is strange that forgot about Leonardo da Vinci.

Finally, before the introduction of the Euro in France banknote 100 francs French was a portrait of Paul cézanne. But before that (1980 and 1995) on the banknote of the same value was depicted by eugène Delacroix and a fragment of his most famous painting "Liberty leading the people".

Interestingly, if you chose Russian artists to be printed on the RUB, who would have preferred? Repin? Rublev? Shishkin? Or, maybe Malevich? But no: after recent events, most likely, Serov. Definitely Serov.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: telegraph.co.uk, bbc.com, artinvestment.ru