TURNER WATERCOLOURS

Hardback

Main Details

Title TURNER WATERCOLOURS
Authors and Contributors      Introduction by David Blayney-Brown
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 230,Width 265
Category/GenreArt and design styles - c 1800 to c 1900
Watercolours
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9781849766661
ClassificationsDewey:759.2
Audience
General
Illustrations 90 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Tate Publishing
Imprint Tate Publishing
Publication Date 3 October 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Turner's lifetime (1775-1851) was also the classic age of English watercolour, and his mastery and perfection of the medium coincided with its establishment as an independent art form. This volume examines the unique body of watercolours Turner produced. Few can doubt that J.M.W. Turner was the greatest exponent of English watercolour in its golden age. An inveterate traveller in search of the ideal vista, he rarely left home without a rolled up, loosebound sketchbook, pencils and a small travelling case of watercolours in his pocket. He exploited as no one before him the medium's luminosity and transparency, conjuring light effects on English meadows and Venetian lagoons and gauzy mists over mountains and lakes. Extraordinary in his own time, he has continued to thrill his countless admirers since. David Blayney Brown, one of the world's leading experts on Turner, reveals the role watercolours played in Turner's life and work, from those he sent for exhibition to the Royal Academy to the private outpourings in which he compulsively experimented with light and colour, which for a modern audience are among his most radical and accomplished works.

Author Biography

David Blayney Brown is Manton Curator of British Art, 1790-1850, Tate Britain. His books include Turner and Byron, Turner in the Alps, The 'Lucerne' Sketchbook, and Romanticism.