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How to paint like Turner
\"J.M.W. Turner is one of the greatest artists Britain has ever produced. His watercolours, with their extraordinary effects of shifting light and dramatic cloudscapes, are especially highly regarded. For the first time, the secrets of his technique are revealed, allowing present-day watercolourists to learn from his achievements. Uniquely, this book combines unrivalled knowledge of Turner's working methods from Tate curators and conservators with practical advice from some of the world's most respected watercolour experts. Each of the twenty-two thematic exercises is illustrated with one of Turner's works. Expert contemporary watercolourists then explain, step by step, how to paint a similar composition, learning from Turner's techniques. This book is packed with invaluable information, from the materials Turner used to achieve the masterpieces we know and love today, to the modern materials the twenty-first-century watercolourist will need if they aspire to take on similar subject matter. Backed by the authority of Tate, the world centre for Turner scholarship, with a glossary of technical terms and the highest quality colour reproductions, this is an invaluable resource both for lovers of Turner's art and of watercolour painting\"--Back cover.
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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\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Turner transported - CULTURE 2013
[...]1992 the canvas in question had been listed as Fire at Sea - not Turner's own title, but one devised by a curator at the National Gallery in the late 1850s.
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After sunset
For those who have missed it, this illuminating exhibition is travelling from Margate to the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, from 1 March to 28 June. Despite these striking omissions, when I looked again at the sketches of Mainz that Turner had made in 1817,1833 (Figs. 1 & 2), and again in 1839, it was apparent that the basic form of the sunlit city should be recognised as Mainz, seen from the south, looking down the Rhine. The serial publication of his views of the Seine was then nearing completion, and he presumably still hoped to extend the project to include other great European rivers, such as the Rhine.
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