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from Zürich, Switzerland, trained to be Catholic priest
but had to flee Zürich for political reasons. In England, Reynolds urged him to make art his life. |
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Associated with radical progressives
such as feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, American revolutionary Thomas Paine, scientists Joseph Priestly and Erasmus Darwin. |
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Did many works inspired
by English literature, especially Shakespeare and Milton. |
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1799 appointed Professor of Painting
at Royal Academy; soon after named head of all Academy schools. |
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Famous poet as well as artist
Modest success at best, at worst impoverished Apprenticed to commercial engraver James Basire |
Blake
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Among first known illustrations by Blake
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engravings for
the feminist Mary Woolstonecraft’s book Original Stories From Real Life, 1791 |
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would say William Blake invented, his brother showed him in a dream
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relief etching
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Blake’s first major work in the manner to become his trademark was
his illustrated set of poems |
Songs of Innocence
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his first in a series
of works in which he created his own mythology, |
Book of Thel
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another
of his neo-mythologies, or “prophecies”. is roughly equivalent to the Hebrew creator god Jehovah, not an entirely benevolent being. |
Blake produced The Book of Urizen
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From Suffolk in east England (see map)
Father corn merchant, owned mills, expected son to continue in the business. Wanted to be “a natural painter”: |
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constable Frustrated his works being ignored,
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increased scale, six feet wide
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seen by Géricault who recommended to Paris dealer.
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The Hay Wain
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did series of sky/cloud
studies in watercolor and oils. Interested in developments in meteorology, especially cloud classification systems |
Constable
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an intagio method which creates gray tones
by working the plate with a toothed wheel; the tiny dents hold ink. Precursor of halftone printing |
Mezzotint
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Constable’s last painting
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Arundel Castle and Mill
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Arundel Castle and Mill
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The White Horse
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The Hay Wain
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Hadleigh Castle |
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The Nightmare
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2nd v of Nightmare,
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The Blind Milton being read
to by his daughter Fuseli |
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Fuseli
German Siegfried Brünhilde observing Günther hanging from a hook in her bedroom. |
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Shakespeare: Lady McBeth with Daggers
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engravings for the feminist Mary Woolstonecraft’s book |
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relief etching Death's Door |
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Infant Joy from Songs of Innocence |
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Book of Theil |
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The Red Dragon and the Beast of the Sea |
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The Whirlwind of Lovers from Dante’s Inferno |
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Native of London. Showed talent early:
Academy schools 1789 (age 14) First passion was architecture; early works often architectural subjects |
Turner
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Although ultimately famous for oils,
a master of watercolor from earliest years. |
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First exhibited an oil painting at R.A.
1796: |
Fishermen at Sea
Remarkable effect of backlit, translucent waves. |
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Turner’s diploma picture
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Dolbardan Castle
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habit of appending poetic text
to pictures – sometimes quoting from others, sometimes what he wrote |
Turner
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“How awful is the silence of the waste
Where nature lifts her mountains to the sky Majestic solitude, behold the tower Where hopeless Owen, long imprison’d, pin’d, And wrung his hands for liberty, in vain |
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often turned to mythic,
Biblical, or historical subjects, but emphasis rests with cataclysmic forces expressed through light and color. Referred to |
Historical Colouring
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Historical Colouring
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historical” meaning expressive or referential
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Critics were merciless
and fellow artists often harsh all his life: “the Figures miserably bad” |
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led
Turner to exhibit almost exclusively from a purpose-built gallery in his own home for several years. |
Feuds within
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“It is grievous to us to think of talent, so mighty and so poetical, running riot
into such frenzies; the more grievous, as we fear, it is now past recall.” “Turner is stark mad with ability |
Constable
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One of Turner’s
own favorites. In quieter mode, much inspired by French Baroque artist |
Dido Building
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I found in him a somewhat eccentric,
keen-mannered, matter-of-fact, English-minded-gentleman: good-natured evidently, bad-tempered evidently, hating humbug of all sorts, shrewd, perhaps a little selfish, highly intellectual, the powers of his mind not brought out with any delight in their manifestation, or intention of display, but flashing out occasionally in a word or a look.” |
Ruskin met Turner
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early Turner
King’s College Chapel, Cambridge |
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Fisherman at Sea |
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Dolbardan Castle Turner’s diploma picture
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The Destruction of Sodom Historical Colouring |
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Battle at Traflgar |
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Dido Building Carthage 1815 |
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