Professionals from the Tate Britain gallery has come to a head very unusual idea: they decided to create the exhibit brings together works by two seemingly very dissimilar artists: Joseph Mellorda William Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) and the Mark Rothko .

Turner - beloved by many British landscape painter - was born in 1775 in the London district of Covent Garden and at the age of 14 years, entered the Royal Academy of Arts, and soon became a member. His landscape paintings and watercolors have been a truly innovative for its time, and many experts call it a precursor of the French Impressionists.

Mark Rothko (real name - Marcus Rotkovich) was born in 1903 in Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia). In 1913 his family moved to the United States and subsequently became one of the postwar American artists. He is known for his meditative abstract paintings of large format, consisting of rectangular color fields.

these authors share a centuries and continents, but even so, they have something in common. In 1966, Mark Rothko visited the exhibition, William Turner, which was held at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and inspecting the exhibition, said: «This Turner learned a lot from me». And in a few years, that inspired the British example, bequeathed all his works the Tate Gallery, has decided to transfer the collection of the Museum of the nine panels, created for them to Sigrem-Building.

And now, according to the intent of the organizers, visitors Tate Britain for the first time be able to get from the so-called «Rothko Rooms» exhibition at Turner in 1966 in New York visited Rothko. In the halls of the Tate will be restored and exposition, which included the complete freedom and experiment, watercolors, such as «Rose gray sky over the sea» (1822) and «lightning clouds: the sunset with the pink sky» (1833).

Director of Tate Britain Stephen Dyushar (Stephen Deuchar) explained: «We have a different history of British art, studying its interaction with the art in the world. And while the Turner exhibition moves from the Russia in China , a Rothko exhibition sent to Japan, we have a unique opportunity to show the comparison ».

The works of Rothko and Turner from the collections of the Tate Gallery can be seen until 26 July.

material produced Catherine Onuchin

Source: artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru