J M W Turner (1775-1850) volume one - a collection of paintings 4K
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (1775-1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower middle-class family. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame.
A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work there at 15. During this period, he also served as an architectural draftsman. He earned a steady income from commissions and sales, which due to his troubled, contrary nature, were often begrudgingly accepted. He opened his own gallery in 1804 and became professor of perspective at the academy in 1807, where he lectured until 1828, although he was viewed as profoundly inarticulate. He traveled to Europe from 1802, typically returning with voluminous sketchbooks.
Intensely private, eccentric and reclusive, Turner was a controversial figure throughout his career. He did not marry, but fathered two daughters, Eveline (1801-1874) and Georgiana (1811-1843), by his housekeeper Sarah Danby. He became more pessimistic and morose as he got older, especially after the death of his father, after which his outlook deteriorated, his gallery fell into disrepair and neglect, and his art intensified. He lived in squalor and poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged 76. Turner is buried in Saint Paul's Cathedral, London.
He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He had been championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born on 23 April 1775 and baptised on 14 May. He was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, in London, England. His father, William Turner, was a barber and wig maker. His mother, Mary Marshall, came from a family of butchers. A younger sister, Mary Ann, was born in September 1778 but died in August 1783.
Turner's mother showed signs of mental disturbance from 1785 and was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in Old Street in 1799 and was moved in 1800 to Bethlem Hospital where she died in 1804. Turner was sent to his maternal uncle, Joseph Mallord William Marshall, in Brentford, then a small town on the banks of the River Thames west of London. The earliest known artistic exercise by Turner is from this period-a series of simple colourings of engraved plates from Henry Boswell's Picturesque View of the Antiquities of England and Wales.
Around 1786, Turner was sent to Margate on the north-east Kent coast. There he produced a series of drawings of the town and surrounding area that foreshadowed his later work. By this time, Turner's drawings were being exhibited in his father's shop window and sold for a few shillings. His father boasted to the artist Thomas Stothard that: "My son, sir, is going to be a painter". In 1789, Turner again stayed with his uncle who had retired to Sunningwell in Berkshire (now part of Oxfordshire). A whole sketchbook of work from this time in Berkshire survives as well as a watercolour of Oxford. The use of pencil sketches on location, as the foundation for later finished paintings, formed the basis of Turner's essential working style for his whole career.
Many early sketches by Turner were architectural studies or exercises in perspective, and it is known that, as a young man, he worked for several architects including Thomas Hardwick, James Wyatt and Joseph Bonomi the Elder. By the end of 1789, he had also begun to study under the topographical draughtsman Thomas Malton, specialised in London views. Turner learned from him the basic tricks of the trade, copying and colouring outline prints of British castles and abbeys. He would later call Malton "My real master". Topography was a thriving industry by which a young artist could pay for his studies.
Turner died of cholera at the home of Sophia Caroline Booth, in Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, on 19 December 1851. He is buried in St Paul's Cathedral, where he lies near to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Apparently his last words were "The Sun is God", though this may be apocryphal.
Turner's friend, the architect Philip Hardwick,, son of his tutor, Thomas Hardwick, was in charge of making the funeral arrangements and wrote to those who knew Turner to tell them at the time of his death that, "I must inform you, we have lost him." Other executors were his cousin and chief mourner at the funeral, Henry Harpur IV, Revd. Henry Scott Trimmer, George Jones RA and Charles Turner ARA.
See volume two for more: coming soon
I love it when Turner was done with all the classical perfection and just went full blown abstract by fuzzing out all hard edges, that's what made him a genius, we all do that today but Turner invented it.
Thanks a million my friend ! Turner is the greatest landscape artist ever. And also the most brilliant watercolourist ever. Herbert Read correctly assessed his work and said - his paintings were the greatest revelation of the power and majesty of nature ! How very true. I guess Ruskin recognised his genius before any one. Once again my gratitude to you. Would like to see your art work too.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it. This video is an overview and there are two more coming that show more detail. I'm working on the titles etc and hope to have the titles for the last 6 videos live by weekend. His work is breathtaking. You may have noticed that the playback resolution is low, this is due to youtube processing, look again in a few hours and it should be playing with upto 4k resolution and you will be able to see much more detail. This always happens if you watch a video soon after it's been uploaded, it's very annoying as I want it to look its best right away. I spent a long time getting very high resolution images to make the video and its a shame if people don't get to see that right away. Thanks again for the message
The pictures are pin sharp....this is a real treasure !,!!!
I'm so pleased you are happy with them. There are two more videos of Turner coming before too long that I hope you will also enjoy
Gracias este artista 🎨 es maravilloso 🎨 maravilloso 🎨
One of my all time favourite Painters and certainly one of much, inspiration too!
Thank you kindly for sharing.
Best wishes,
Hugh.
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Another famous name with a fascinating history. Thank you for putting it together.
Thanks again for this ! Turner was a genius.
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Turner was as I said earlier the greatest water colourist ever. Please see if you can get some John Robert Cozens. Turner learnt from his work, as he and Thomas Girtin copied his work for a patron, a doctor , where cozens was hospitalised. Cozens water colours are few , but hypnotic in quality. His washes are incredible, and the moment you see them, you know , here is pure genius !
Thanks, I will absolutely do that. I must say I am really enjoying and excited to have now made some new friends through this channel and I'm looking forward to all the many conversations we can all have in the future and the many things I'm going to learn. It's wonderful to have found some like minded people.
As a child his sky's mesmerised me and I wondered how??? I stumbled across impressionism by accident later, too young to realise it had a name!😆 But I never forgot Turner and was, still am puzzled by his style being labeled 'romantic', when however young I saw the immense drama good and 'bad', and not least his geneous! I grew up with those sky's he reproduced but came across him when living in a built up city! I'm not an art critic and pleased I've found your channel.😁👌
Turner the painter of light ! Indeed ! His alleged last words - The Sun is God ! It appears that even now nobody how he obtained certain effects - mist, foam on waves and mainly the effect of light on water.....what an eye he had....
Indeed. Oddly enough about three days ago I mentioned to my mom about Turners last words. I chose to believe it is true.
the sea and the paintings are not violent. the sea is a hostile environment to humans, same as the night or dark. many creatures flourish there, same as we do on the land and in the day time. the paintings reflect truth, these paintings reflect truth where most cultivate it to be what they want to see. to turn wild nature into an English country garden
When you put up volume 2 could you post a message on this site.
You've noted 1850 as his death? I've so far got 1851? Now he's on £20 notes...and I've taken up art again 50 years later!! Can someone clarify?
Thank you. I will look into this.