Clary wrote:This is what Turner thought Totnes on the Dart looked like - ... And the colours are very wishy-washy.
Water colour, phooey! Give us good old acrylics any day. Just think how many Turner could have sold if we could only see what he was doing.
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McTag wrote:Clary wrote:This is what Turner thought Totnes on the Dart looked like - ... And the colours are very wishy-washy.
Water colour, phooey! Give us good old acrylics any day. Just think how many Turner could have sold if we could only see what he was doing.
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How true!
But given his enormous use of colour in, say The Fighting Temeraire, you would think he'd use a slightly larger palette for the sumptuous greens of the Dart Valley.
And thank you, one and all, our arrangements are going well. The most wonderful tributes keep coming, people have the clearest memories of great times, and it really does push aside the miserable 3 years that have just passed.
Watercolors are notorious for fading, Clary. I would bet Turner originally used more vivid hues.
Eva wrote:Watercolors are notorious for fading, Clary. I would bet Turner originally used more vivid hues.
The ones in the Tate are not exposed to the light; they are kept in folders, only to be examined by permission, and in controlled circumstances.
(even the acrylics
)
I like this photo of the River Dart from Sharpham College. Turner was just trying to show that the land was "sun-kissed."
Okay, maybe Turner was there on a hazy day...?
Right... a sun-kissed, hazy day in late summer when everything was drying up.
delicious photo, piffka..
those lazy hazy crazy days of summer
even turner had them
hazy days, that is
I live in a hazeland when it isn't crystalline.. we get one of the other, fog or breakyoureyes clear.
Well, I should be quiet, Turner can do no wrong for me.
Yep, I like Turner's paintings, too, even the truly hazy ones like Sunrise with Sea Monsters (love that title!):
Don't get me wrong, I adore Turner. So modern for his time, too.
That view from Sharpham is wonderful, a couple of miles away from me. Sharpham is a Buddhist centre, and the estate also includes a small vineyard with the best red wine in Britain (it wins gold medals) and local cheese making.
Interesting, this travel digression is turning into a travel digression, and a painting one! Now that's a cut above red shoes....
May I suggest you look at
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=671522#671522 for arrangements for a meet in Europe next year?
No, my red shoe photos are art and travel. One a function of the other.
Travels through the haze in red shoes.
Now that would be a digression.
And don't get me wrong neither. Awkwardly though I may at times express myself, what with heavy-handed bull-in-china-shop humour, I revere Turner.
And I turner Revere.
I had always really liked Turner, would have picked him if I had to pick...
but then I actually saw some paintings, in the Frick in NY, and ok, that's it...
As a painter, it isn't just the atmospherics, which seems easy now that we see how he did it, but the pulsing of everything else in the painting.
I have no idea where Turner will end up on the panoply of painters, but what engaged him engages me. I am'nt Turner, but interested.
I don't know much about paintings and artists, but I would say that Turner has achieved almost iconic significance in Britain, the most important English landscape painter.
On a personal note, I can tell you that my grandfather was a very good painter of landscapes, the family still has a lot of his oils; and my mother was a gifted painter, and used to enjoy china painting among other things; but sad to relate, I can neither draw nor paint to save myself.
