Retrospective J. M. W. Turner in New York
ARTinvestment.RU   06 июля 2008

July 1 Metropolitan Museum opened an exhibition of famous British artist J. M. W. Turner - the largest in the United States over the past forty years

C 1 July to 21 September 2008 in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art held a retrospective of one of the most famous English artist, Joseph Mellorda William Turner (Okson, 1775 - Oxford, 1851). Curators appointed Gary Tinterau and Katherine Kelli Galitts. Retrospective will be the largest exhibition of Turner in the United States over the past forty years.

The exhibition has already traveled to Washington and Dallas, and it became one of the major cultural events. It can be seen about one hundred and fifty paintings and watercolors, and eighty-five of which are provided by the Tate Britain gallery. In Tate kept most of the so-called «inheritance Turner»: the artist conveyed the State about a hundred paintings, including paintings, recognized the most important of his career.

It is believed that in due time Turner made a revolution in the genre of landscape. He proposed a new vision of art that has made him one of the most significant artists of the XIX century. We know that Turner has had an enormous influence on artists, romantics and impressionists. The identity of the artist marked all his work. Most of his paintings and watercolors - landscapes, drowned in the snow or fog.

Turner was one of the most celebrated artists of his time. He has written over five hundred paintings and about fifteen hundred watercolors. From the very beginning of his career, English painter enjoyed tremendous success. In the fourteen years he entered the school the Royal Academy of Arts, and soon his paintings were on display at its annual exhibitions. At the age of twenty-six years, Turner became the youngest academician in the history of this prestigious educational institution, and a further five years was a professor at the prospects.

The exhibition, which now can be visited in the «underground», which allows you to see all facets of the great creative artist, is divided (in chronological and thematically) in ten parts. Earlier in his career, Turner worked primarily in watercolor and drawing, but soon he wanted to become a distinguished painter, and began to paint in oil, such as «Fishermen at Sea» (1796), which was the first painting of the artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Later in his painting and drawing, he began to focus on elements that have become typical of the style, which he followed many of their «classical» works. He began to pay attention to atmospheric effects, seek to pass through various means (mostly watercolor) illusion «elevated».

After some time the idea caught fire Turner picture various important events. He traveled extensively throughout Europe, especially after the end of 1815 the Napoleonic wars. In his works of that time he used the new color pigments that have made it a palette more colorful. After the war, Turner writes on different themes: his paintings and was fond of rural life and urban realities of industrial society.

The exhibition displays works of all phases of his work: from the famous «Battle of Trafalgar» 1823 (the largest picture of Turner and the sole of his works, created by order of the monarch - King George IV) and «fire in the House Lords and the House of Commons », created in 1835 under the impression the events that occurred on the evening of October 16, 1834, when the Parliament building in London spread fire.

«final chord» retrospectives at the New York museum - works created by Turner in the twilight of his more than 50-year career. This is the most striking works by the artist. They all its scenic effects are mixed in one mass svetozarnuyu serving allegory the unity of nature. In the later works of Turner could see the beginnings of abstraction. Turner retrospective in the United States allows us to once again make sure that this great artist has shown his contemporaries the future of art.

Source: masdearte.com



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