Author: National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392406
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Sir Walter Armstrong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Author: Joseph Mallord William Turner
Publisher: Random House Business Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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The 'unfinished' watercolors in this book were the germinating iridescent center from which some of Turner's best known works emerged. The Petworth Watercolours, the 'Colour Beginnings', the sketches for 'Rivers of France' and other blue-paper sketches are all famous, yet have never before been reproduced in useful quantity. Here the relevant pencil sketchbooks, carefully but entertainingly annotated, provide a chronological matrix. The range, power, and brilliance of these watercolors will astonish even those who know Turner well through his oil paintings. From his return from Italy in 1820 to the 'Burning of the Houses of Parliament' in 1834, we see his work rise to a level rarely equalled in the story of art. In his color sketches Turner reaches out to the precarious edges of artistic achievement. -- Provided by publisher.

Author: Alexander Joseph Finberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: John Ruskin
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724

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Author: John Ruskin
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724

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Author: Andrew Wilton
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754600268
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Turner as Draughtsman looks at the artist's practice of drawing in various media (pen, pencil and chalk as well as watercolour and oil paint), an aspect of Turner's work which has hitherto received very little attention. Andrew Wilton shows that, while Turner's art has always been celebrated for its atmospheric breadth and freedom of handling, he based his working procedures throughout his career on the discipline of drawing in outline, which was an essential element in the grand strategy by which he achieved his formidable results. An important section of the book is devoted to the vexed question of Turner's drawing of the human figure, and the crucial role played by the figure both in his conception of landscape and in his ambitious attempts to master all the genres of fashionable contemporary art.

Author: William Thomas Whitley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Author: Anthony Bailey
Publisher: Tate Enterprises Ltd
ISBN: 1849763003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Joseph Mallord William Turner is arguably Britain's greatest and most mysterious painter, whose range of work encompasses seascape and landscape, immensely powerful oil paintings and intimate watercolours. His friend and colleague C.R. Leslie remembered him thus: 'Turner was short and stout, and had a sturdy, sailor-like walk. He might be taken for the captain of a river steamboat at first glance; but a second would find more in his face than belongs in any ordinary mind. There was that peculiar keenness of expression in his eye that is only seen in men of constant habits of observation'. The son of a Covent garden barber and a woman who died in Bethlehem Hospital, Turner achieved fame and fortune during his lifetime. Although he possessed a wide-ranging imagination, he was an often incoherent speaker and writer, and his muddled will produced much discord - it is a wonder that, despite avaricious relatives and incompetent lawyers, so many of his works are now in the hands of the nation, and publicly proclaim his genius. In this previously unavailable biography, Anthony Bailey has drawn upon archival material, scholarly literature and research, as well as studying many of Turner's sketchbooks, paintings and watercolours. Uncovering fresh material, as well as pulling together previously known facts, Bailey sheds new light on this complicated and secretive artistic figure.