Pachet Albume de artă - William Turner

Album de arta William Turner

William Turner: singuratic, timid si excentric. Artist extrem de prolific, a devenit rapid unul dintre cei mai de succes pictori de peisaj si imagini maritime din Anglia. Desi in timpul vietii Turner s-a bucurat de faima numai pe teritoriul Marii Britanii, astazi este considerat un creator cu talent exceptional ce se studiaza intre romantism si impresionism.

Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages Through Time

Widely considered Britain’s greatest painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) is best known for his light-filled landscapes and seascapes. A relentless traveler, Turner often turned his artistic attention to the theme of modern and ancient ports. In the mid-1820s, Turner exhibited two monumental, and controversial, paintings of ports: Cologne and Dieppe. Shocking for their intense luminosity and yellow tonality, as well as for Turner’s unorthodox handling of paint, these works marked a transition in the artist’s career as he moved away from naturalism and toward a new, poetic topography.
 
This in-depth study of these two seminal paintings also addresses a wide selection of Turner’s works in both oil and watercolor from the 1820s, placing them in the context of radical changes in British social and economic structures taking place at the time. Drawing from period travel accounts, contemporary critical commentary, and new technical analyses of Turner’s work, this magnificently illustrated book brings a fresh, new perspective to the pivotal middle years of Turner’s career.