Lecture 1 in Series of 6. A celebration of Turner’s imaginative
landscapes to coincide with the 250th anniversary of his birth in 1775.
Armed with just a sketch book and a photographic
memory - Joseph Mallord William Turner left London in July 1811 and began his tour of the South Coast at Poole in Dorset then went through to Devon and finally Cornwall travelling along the Cornish coast to Land’s End returning via Watchet in Somerset where he went inland to London by coach. The whole journey took 8 weeks.
Turner was not creating paintings of his travels to the West Country speculatively – he had been commissioned to make a series of paintings by his publisher W.B.Cooke to be made
into engravings to sell. In this lecture Wallace looks at how Turner’s paintings conveyed the romance of this
unspoilt part of England with its castles, cliffs, rivers and working harbours, all created with an exaggeration of scale and perspective which amplified the message of romance in the
viewers imagination. They inspired him to produce watercolours which were made into prints that were highly lucrative for the artist. Wallace compares the paintings, sketchbooks and prints Turner made from this journey.
The lecture also looks at the watercolour studies that show Turner was inspired by the drama for the coast line of Devon and Cornwall to push the limits of his watercolour
technique and make bold experiments in that medium which would not look out of of place on gallery walls today. Cost £14 or £70 for all 6 monthly lectures. visit
https://cathwallace.co.uk/art-history-lectures-2/ to book. or email
Y2F0aGVyaW5ld2FsbGFjZTIgfCBpY2xvdWQgISBjb20= to pay by BACS or send a cheque to Pendarves, Tremough Dlae, Penryn TR10 8JA.
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