Turner's Sketches and DrawingsFinberg, A. J. (Alexander Joseph)
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Turner's Sketches and Drawings
Finberg, A. J. (Alexander Joseph)
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
An attempt to define the mood of pictures like the ‘Frosty
Morning,’ 64
The work of art is nothing less than its full significance, 67
Distinction between mood and character, 68
VI. THE ‘LIBER STUDIORUM,’ 72
Object of this chapter, 72
The first ‘Liber’ drawings were made at W. F. Wells’s cottage
at Knockholt, Kent, 73
‘Bridge and Cows,’ 73
Development of the so-called ‘Flint Castle,’ 75
‘Basle,’ 78
‘Little Devil’s Bridge, 80
‘London from Greenwich,’ 80
‘Kirkstall Crypt,’ 81
Etchings of the so-called ‘Raglan Castle’ and ‘Source of the
Arveron,’ 82
Suggestion for the better exhibition of the ‘Liber Studiorum’
drawings, 83
VII. THE SPLENDOUR OF SUCCESS, OR ‘WHAT YOU WILL’--1813-1830, 84
Survey of the ground we have covered, 84
The training of Turner’s sympathies by the Poets, 85
The limits of artistic beauty, 86
The predominantly sensuous bent of Turner’s genius, 86
The parting of the ways, 87
The influence of the Academy and society, 88
Turner’s first visit to Italy, 89
The Naturalistic fallacy, 95
Turner’s work for the engraver, 97
VIII. MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DECAY, AND THE ORIGIN OF
IMPRESSIONISM--1830-1845, 116
Mental Characteristics of the 1815-1830 period, 116
Their influence on form and colour, 117
Colour enrichment a general characteristic of Romantic art, 118
What further development is required to give the transition to
Impressionism? 118
Turner’s first Impressionistic work, 119
Vagueness as a means of expression, 119
Two ways of painting one’s impressions. Turner’s earlier way
contrasted with the modern Impressionistic way, 119
The change after 1830 is it a change in terms of sight or of
thought--visual or mental? 120
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