Tag Archives: Joseph Mallord William Turner

BEGINNING OF THE NAMELESS SOMETHING: PROMETHEUS for all

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Dave

Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds Which Thou and I alone of living things Behold with sleepless eyes! regard this Earth Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou Requitest … Continue reading →

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INFIDELS: MADNESS,MYTH & MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Dave

There is in the “mythology of madness” the oft repeated story of radical therapy effect by Phillipe Pinel when he released the madmen and madwomen from their chains in Bicetre and Salpetriere hospitals in Paris in 1794. Pinel’s freeing of … Continue reading →

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DESOLATION IN THE SHADOWS OF REALITY

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Dave

His range may have been a narrow one, but within its limits he was one of the most sincere painters this country has seen. He was the first who attempted with success to place nature upon canvas with pigments that … Continue reading →

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AN ABHORRENCE FOR GLOSSY MIRACLES OF TECHNIQUE

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Dave

“It was a real learning experience,” she recalls, “to sit for hours with great paintings and get inside an artist’s head to see the logic of how he put the painting together.” Reflecting upon earlier artists who have influenced her … Continue reading →

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DISTINCT FROM THE AMBIANCE OF HISTORY

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Dave

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous … Continue reading →

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SELF DOUBTS OF A RELENTLESS PERFECTIONIST

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Dave

The similarity in the approaches to landscape taken by the geographer and the landscape painter have been acknowledged since the first half of the nineteenth century. Both are committed to developing coherent descriptions of he surface of the earth in … Continue reading →

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A SALTY DOG FLOATS ON

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Dave

‘All hands on deck, we’ve run afloat!’ I heard the captain cry ‘Explore the ship, replace the cook: let no one leave alive!’ Across the straits, around the Horn: how far can sailors fly? A twisted path, our tortured course, … Continue reading →

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A COUPLE COOL CATS & HOT RATS

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Dave

”Introduced to-day to the man who beyond all doubt is the greatest of the age; greatest in every faculty of the imagination, in every branch of scenic knowledge; at once the painter and poet of the day… I found in him … Continue reading →

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ACROSS AN EPIC NOT INTIMATE UNIVERSE

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Dave

”But Turner—especially in his own last years—was not at all hostile to the incoming empire of technology. Quite the opposite: he believed that the speeding train or the chugging paddle steamer could be turned into a visual lyric that married … Continue reading →

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A COMPLEX HIDDEN SPIRIT:OBSCURED BY THE SUN

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Dave

Atmospherics, visions and hallucinations. A pathological obsession with light. Turner’s paintings, while both beautiful, and ahead of their time, are still considered to be the black sheep of their time. Their unorthodox nature may have overshadowed his goal of bringing … Continue reading →