William Turner. The painting of a lifetime 11 класс

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Bryansk 2019.

«The Shipwreck»
Painting «The last voyage of the ship "Bold»
The painting

«A burial at sea»
Topographic scenes
Classical landscape
Painting «City and river at sunset»
The Painting « Grand – canal»
Sublime
Painting «Fire in the London Parliament»
The Painting «The Eruption Of Vesuvius»
Conclusion

landscape painter.
Turner-the only person in whose work the most fully

reflected nature in all its integrity, from this point of view, it is a completely unique landscape painter, who ever knew the world…
Among us lived and created the greatest artist of all time, a man who by the extraordinary power of his talent, even for a moment it is impossible to put on a par with anyone from the masters of the past.

John Ruskin, 1843.

of a Barber.
1785 Goes to study at a country school

in Brentford, a suburb of London.
1787 Creates the earliest extant watercolors .
1790 Receives the right to free attendance at the Royal Academy. The first exhibited (at the Academy) work.
1792 Makes a trip to the highlands of Wales.
1794 His watercolor a view of Rochester published in the form of engravings.
1797 The first exhibition of Turner's oil paintings.
1798 An affair with Sarah Danby, the widow of composer John Danby.
1799 Rents an apartment on Harley street. Becomes a candidate for membership in the Academy.
1800 Sarah and William born daughter.
1802 Travels through Europe. He visits Paris, where he studies the works of old masters exhibited in the Louvre. Becomes a full member of the Royal Academy.
1804 Opens its private gallery on Harley street.
1806 Sarah and William have a second daughter.
1819 First trip to Italy.
1829 grieved the death of his father. He meets Sophia Booth.
1833 Visits Dresden, Berlin, Prague and Vienna. Affair with Sophia Booth.
1851 Dies in his house, in the hands of Sophia.

Turner exhibited at the annual exhibition of the Academy of

arts. The first oil painting, which was awarded the exhibition, appeared in Turner in 1790. Subsequently, Turner was constantly exhibited at the Academy. From 1791 he worked as a set designer at the Pantheon Opera on Oxford street and worked as a part-time teacher.

Early work.

Moonlight, 1797.
31.5 cm x 40.5 cm,
canvas, D.,
Tate gallery, London, United Kingdom

Turner mastered, studying the work of John Cosens (1752 -

1799 ) in the "school of Monroe."

Melrose Abbey.
watercolor,
private collection.

He could portray the sea as quiet and gentle or

alarmingly silent before the storm. The artist had a passionate desire to compete with the artists-marinists of the past. Not less than sea, Turner admired by the courts, bravely entering into the struggle with the elements. His ships proudly cut the waves, and their appearance often overshadows the exploits of the people who control them.

Gallery, London

London

91cm x 122 cm
Tate Gallery, London

86.5 cm
Tate Gallery, London

who successfully mastered the lucrative lithography market. His engravings first

appeared in a magazine performance in 1794. A little later, he mastered the technique of engraving so well that, working intensively, he accumulated material for entire volumes. The largest collections of Turner's engravings were albums "Picturesque corners of England and Wales", published in the 1830s.

of his time, ahead of him. However, all this did

not prevent him with great respect to the work of the old masters. Thus, the strongest impression on Turner made the work of Claude Lorraine and Poussin.

13.4 cm x 18.9 cm
Tate Gallery, London

cm,
The Metropolitan Museum of art, USA, new York

cornerstones of the entire building of romanticism. Exalted are called

works of art, awesome and calling the human to the transcendent. Have Turner's sublime often manifests itself in the form of natural disasters. Natural disasters are also found in his works, written on biblical themes and subjects of classical mythology.

123 cm
Philadelphia Museum of art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

cm
New Haven, Connecticut

Turner, largely anticipated the discovery of impressionist artists, closely studied

the heritage of the English painter and inspired them. He stood on the threshold of the advancing era of modern painting, for which Turner was one of the last masters of the past and the first among contemporary artists.