paxvictoriana: Joseph Mallord William (J.M.W.) Turner, born 23…
Joseph Mallord William (J.M.W.) Turner, born 23 April 1775!
‘What [Turner] paints chiefly is light as modified by objects. He first recognizes the impossibility of really reproducing on canvas all that is in a landscape; then gives for that which cannot be reproduced a something else which shall have upon the spectator an approximate effect to that of the real. He said, in his maddest and greatest days: “What pictorial drug can I dose man with, which shall affect his eyes somewhat in the manner of this reality which I cannot carry to him?”…
‘Hence, one may say, Art is the secret of how to produce by a false thing the effect of a true…’ [–Thomas Hardy, The Life of TH]
- Going to the Ball (San Marino) [exhib. 1846; Tate]
- Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) [1840; Boston MFA]
- Death on a Pale Horse (?) [ca.1825-30; Tate]
- Norham Castle, Sunrise [ca.1845; Tate]
- Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Statue [ca.1835 ; Met]
- Whalers [ca.1845; Met]
- Stonehenge [ca. 1827; Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum]
- Sea Breaking on a Pier: Stormy Sky [ca.1823-5; Private Collection]
- Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall [1811; Met]
- Turner’s Bedroom in the Palazzo Giustinian (the Hotel Europa), Venice [ca.1840; Tate]
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