PRESENTATION OUTLINE
J. TURNER AND J. CONSTABLE
WHO IS THE GREATEST BRITISH PAINTER EVER?
Is it Joseph Mallord William Turner, whose glowing, occasionally abstract, visions of sea and sky and the violent elements are celebrated at Tate Britain from 10 September?
Or is it his contemporary John Constable, whose acute observations of the clouds, trees and changing light of his native Suffolk are examined at the V&A 10 days later?
THEY BOTH HAD A PROFOUND INFLUENCE ON THE BIRTH OF MODERNISM.
The way they broke out of the conventions of painting to try to capture the freshness, change and sheer reality of nature helped inspire the impressionists and gave these two landscape masters a place at the heart of modern art's history.
T. BRINGS TO LIFE THE DRAMA OF THE NATURAL WORLD
SEARCH FOR SOMETHING FRESH
C. AS A METICULOUS OBSERVER OF COUNTRYSIDE
kind of tunnel effect in T.which takes the eye right in to the heart of the picture.
C. CAPTURES THE EFFECTS OF LIGHT
SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO NATURE
T. WAS FASCINATED WITH SPEED
