JMW Turner Watercolours from The Courtauld at Wordsworth Museum

July 18, 2008

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J M W Turner - Margate Pier - Courtesy Courtauld Institute

GRASMERE, UK - Outstanding works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), from The Courtauld in London, will be displayed together for the first time in this exciting exhibition at the Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery. The variety of style and technique seen in these works is evidence of the Turner’s extraordinarily inventive approach to the making of landscape in watercolour.

The works to be displayed in the exhibition are the product of a lifetime of journeying through Britain and the Continent in search of appealing subject matter. Intensely ambitious, Turner was constantly aware of the need to attract attention to his art. Following in his footsteps, the exhibition will pursue his aims and ambitions, stressing the vital contribution of patronage and print publication and the role of collectors and friends, most notably the influential art critic, John Ruskin, as champions and promoters of his work. Sketchbooks, single prints and book illustrations will be shown alongside complimentary works to illustrate the artist’s working process and to explore the transmission of his ideas and visual images through the different media.

The exhibition on view through 12 October includes the following sections:

Early Ambition
Picturesque Britain
The Lure of the Continent
Sand, Sea and Sky: Margate and Ruskin

Romanticism is a general, collective term to describe much of the art and literature produced during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. During this period there was a broad shift of emphasis in the arts, away from the structured, intellectual, reasoned approach of the 18th century (which is often called the ‘Age of Reason’, or the ‘Enlightenment’) towards ways of looking at the world which recognised the importance of the emotions and the imagination. Visit : www.wordsworth.org.uk/

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