November 18, 2008 Pushkin Museum to them. Alexander Pushkin and Gallery «Tate Britten» (London) present an exhibition «Turner. 1775-1851 ».

Joseph Mellord William Turner - a prominent British landscape, an enormous influence on the development of European painting of the second half of XIX century. In 1802, at the age of twenty-seven years old, he became the youngest member of the London Royal Academy of Arts in the history of this institution.

started his career in keeping with the established tradition in English art, Turner soon mastered the legacy of old European masters, from Rembrandt and Claude Lorrain and Antoine Watteau. Rapidly growing professionalism and the ability to easily convey the state of the atmosphere forced the artist to phase out a detailed plot, taken at the time of European art, and far ahead of its time closer to the stylistic manner similar Impressionist painting.

William Turner, one of the few European artists whose works are not represented in the Russian museum collections. Selected works are sometimes decorated with prefabricated exhibition, but can not reveal the entire depth of his talent - in latitude of Turner's often compared with the great Leonardo, a young John Reskin called it the perfect landscape in the history of mankind. Prior to 1796 the artist worked exclusively in watercolor. Subsequently, he often used this technique, especially during the numerous trips to Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland and the British province.

Improving in watercolor technique, artist partially postponed its stylistic techniques in the paintings - is actively used in those days, a new intense yellow pigment, and light soil to achieve a watercolor effect. A special part of the heritage of Turner, holding the post of professor at the London Academy of Arts, constitute the theoretical treatises and manuals.

The exposition will include more than a hundred works (40 paintings, 70 watercolors and 2 prints), from the collections of the Tate Gallery Brito - State National Museum in London. It stores more than sixty thousand works of art: painting, sculpture, drawings, prints. This is the largest in the world collection of English art XVI-XX centuries. The basis of the collection of the Tate Gallery - private collection of paintings by British artist Sir Henry Tate. Gallery opened July 21, 1897.

Building Galleries dostraivalos repeatedly. In 1926 new premises located in the collection of foreign art. In 1979, the opening of the halls of modern art. In 1987 - Gallery opens Klor, specially built for the works of Turner, who bequeathed his paintings in England, provided that they all will be saved as a single exhibition. Sir Charles Klor provided funds for the construction of the gallery.

Today, the London Tate is divided into two parts: the British or the old Tate Gallery Tate Gallery, which is a collection of British art XVI-XX centuries, and the Tate Modern Gallery, which opened in May 2000 in a converted building of the former power station near the Cathedral of St. Paul. It presents European and American art from 1900 to present. In addition, there are two branches the Tate Galleries outside London: the Tate Liverpool and Tate St. Yves.

The best paintings are included in this exhibition, are important and point: «The fishermen in the sea» - the first serious work of the artist in the technique of oil painting, exhibited in 1796 at the Academy of Arts. Established after the trip to the Isle of Wight, the painting is executed in the tradition of a European academic painting and significantly different from Turner's watercolors of the period.

During his first visit to the continent in 1802, Turner met with the art of old masters and the principles of historical painting, which in those days was considered the highest achievement in the arts. The result of this trip was the canvas «snowstorm. The transition of Hannibal across the Alps »(1812), connected with the author's personal experiences, caught once witnessed a terrible storm, zastigshey him in the Swiss Alps. Interest in the «big style» Turner carried through his entire life, but proved to be one of the few artists of his time, umevshih given the scale of the historic paintings contemporary subjects. Among the best works presented at the exhibition include the painting «eternal rest. Funerals at Sea »(1842) - Turner presented as to look like the funeral of his friend, the Scottish painter Sir David Uilki who died while returning from the Middle East and now the last refuge in the sea off the coast of Gibraltar after the authorities in the British port refused to take the body - for fear that the deceased was ill cholera.

Turner was alone in the art of his time and left no direct successors. In 1870-s of his work is seriously interested in impressionist, but only the twentieth century has been to comprehend the sublime world of images of Turner's later works, such as a «sunrise. Sea monsters »(ca. 1845), or« ice storm - the ship leaves the harbor, giving signals in shallow water and measuring the depth of fathomable »(1842), where color is subordinated to a certain idea.

In addition to famous paintings and famous Turner watercolors, created in the late period of the artist, the exhibition presents works by little-known Russian public, reflecting the period of the master, as well as academic study, which reveal him as a teacher and theorist.

Visit the Pushkin Museum in the exhibit will be up to 15 Feb, 2009.

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Source: museum.ru