Aaron RM Foundation: TATE BRITAIN

I really enjoyed looking at turners work and his experiments with colour. I specifically was interested in the way he used mixed media to create various marks and tones for example the way he used water colour and pencil in his study of a tree.

JMW TURNER 1775 - 1851 SMOW STORM


	JMW TURNER 1775 - 1851 FISHERMAN AT SEA

JMW TURNER 1775 - 1851 MEN WITH HORSES CROSSING RIVER

JMW TURNER 1775 - 1851 FORUM ROMANUM

COLOUR INTO LINE

Turner’s engraver’s had to produce complex patterns of black lines which, when printed onto white paper, could convey the impression of colour. They used many skilful techniques and tricks to ‘translate’ colours into a language based on tone. Deep colours such as blue appeared dark, whilst lighter colours such as yellow would be created using white. Mid-tones such as red might be black or white, according to the emphasis placed within turner’s picture

Quote: # he that impresses the observation or simulates the associate idea of a colour individually is the great artist’

Turner and the Development of Colour

in Turners time, discourses on colour theory were rapidly expanding, giving rise to the publication of sever influential texts in Britain and Europe in the eighteenth and nineteen=nth centuries, theorists set out to define colour comprehensively, each propounding a holistic ‘colour theory ‘since the publication of Isaac Newton’s Optiks, others followed in examining the nature of primary colours. in his (natural system of colours) moses Harris sought to demonstrate the multitude of colours, and colour relationships, that could be created from the three primaries, red yellow and blue.

Based on Harris’s prismatic colour wheel Turners’ Colour Diagram was used in his Royal Academy lectures on atmospheric perspective, in which he defined the relationships between ‘aerial’ colours as in light and material colours as in pigments.

JMW TURNER - STUDY OF TREES 1820-1830

JMW TURNER

SAILORS GETTING PIGS ON BOARD ON A CHOPPY SEA 1792-3

JMW TURNER - BASLE - 1807

JMW TURNER - CHICHESTER CANAL - 1828

JMW TURNER - POWIS CASTLE,MONTGOMERY

1836

ATKINSON GRIMSHAW

LIVERPOOL QUAY BY MOONLIGHT

JOHN MARTIN - THE LAST DAY OF JUDGMENT

JOHN MARTIN - THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH

JOHN MARTIN - THE PLAINS OF HEAVEN

John Martins apocalyptic paintings also attracted my eye by the use of the composition and colours,

CHRISTOPHER RICHARD WYNNE

BURSTING SHELL

PATRICK CAULFIELD - AFTER LUNCH - 1975

In the art gallery I really liked Patrick Caulfield’s work due to the combination of two different art styles, as you can see he has integrated a very traditional painting within a very graphic environment which immediately creates a juxtaposition and draws the audience in.