The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner
Life, Masterpieces, and the Light of English RomanticismBy Eric Shanes
Length6h 55m
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At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth. He soon acquired the reputation of an immensely clever watercolourist. A disciple of Girtin and Cozens, he showed in his choice and presentation of theme a picturesque imagination which seemed to mark him out for a brilliant career as an illustrator. He travelled, first in his native land and then on several occasions in France, the Rhine Valley, Switzerland and Italy. He soon began to look beyond illustration. However, even in works in which we are tempted to see only picturesque imagination, there appears his dominant and guiding ideal of lyric landscape. His choice of a single master from the past is an eloquent witness for he studied profoundly such canvases of Claude as he could find in England, copying and imitating them with a marvellous degree of perfection. His cult for the great painter never failed. He desired his Sun Rising through Vapour and Dido Building Carthage to be placed in the National Gallery side by side with two of Claude's masterpieces. And, there, we may still see them and judge how legitimate was this proud and splendid homage. It was only in 1819 that Turner went to Italy, to go again in 1829 and 1840. Certainly Turner experienced emotions and found subjects for reverie which he later translated in terms of his own genius into symphonies of light and colour. Ardour is tempered with melancholy, as shadow strives with light. Melancholy, even as it appears in the enigmatic and profound creation of Albrecht Dürer, finds no home in Turner's protean fairyland – what place could it have in a cosmic dream? Humanity does not appear there, except perhaps as stage characters at whom we hardly glance. Turner's pictures fascinate us and yet we think of nothing precise, nothing human, only unforgettable colours and phantoms that lay hold on our imaginations. Humanity really only inspires him when linked with the idea of death – a strange death, more a lyrical dissolution – like the finale of an opera.
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1Eric Shanes Eric Shanes
2The Life and Masterworks
3© Parkstone Press International, New York, USA © Confidential Concept, worldwide, USA
4The British Museum, London, U.K.
5them, rather than to some rich private collector.
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6Turner: Preface
7The Life
8later visions of an ideal world.
9The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner
10favourable responses to his vivacious and inventive offerings.
11work and its successors.
12of artists, including Antonio Canaletto (1697-1768), Edward Dayes (1763-1804), Thomas Hearne
13Many of the latter’s favourite landscape painters, particularly Claude, Nicholas Poussin (1594-1665)
14The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner
15truths of behaviour and form.
16how fully the painter already understood wave-formation, reflectivity and the underlying motion
17The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner
18complete matching of human appearances to our underlying realities.
19as carefully as possible.
20mezzotint engraving, Tate Britain, London, U.K.
21in a rather dramatic (and wholly characteristic) fashion:
22matter and imagery.
23selection committee.
24hostilities with France.
25paternity of the girls and the identity of their mother.
26the truths of place with profound inventiveness.
27prices for his works.
28“SPLENDIDE MENDAX” (“Splendid lies”) on
29with liberty and democracy to date.
30and blue, with all kinds of wonderfully subtle modulations between them.
31(par le diligence) in a snow drift on Mount Tarrar
32less than ten days after the paternal demise.
33certain doors in his life.
34In 1832, when Constable exhibited his Opening of Waterloo Bridge [Private Collection]
35it into a buoy.
36the victory.
37the early 1830s.
38Trafalgar Square.
39(in his imperfect prose):
4051 x 82.5 cm, Tate Britain, London, U.K.
41idealism of a lifetime to a triumphant conclusion.
42no inconsistency between Turner’s lifelong identification with such a metaphysical system and
43The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner
44The Life
45The Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner
46Willem van de Velde the younger, A Rising Gale.
47Battle Abbey, The Spot Where Harold Fell, 1819. Engraving.
48Dido building Carthage; or, the Rise of the Carthaginian Empire, 1815.
49proof state, The British Museum, London, U.K.
50London, U.K.
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