Saatchi art gallery

From Turner Drawing

I will need: Colour pens/ pencils

Chose a TURNER painting

'Early Turner'

Title: Fisherman at Sea

Dimensions; 91cm x 122cm

Date: 1796

What was the art movement of Turner work called.

  Free art style hat evolved after his studies of the Classic artist movement of old Moster painters.
Explain why the movement was called this way.

  The reason the drawing was called this way is because the images wave his chose, realistic and perfect detail used with colours suit into the mood he would like to bright us into.

Write what your first impression of the work are, what do you notice first.

  The first thing I have noticed were colours and whole the atmosphere he gave using the perfect situation on sea. Main thing that catch my eye was the combination on sky, the darked around light that tried to come out of the sky.
Explain what you like about the work.
 In this painting I like the catches atmosphere, no much colours used but mainly the sky. I love the way they came out. You can't really see the light used on my quick sketch but on his painting it looks amazing.

Look closely at the work and write what you can see.

 Waves looks almost as if Turner was forced of nature himself, to brush strokes to attain waves that must have been energetic. Contrasting with waves the sky seems to be more peaceful brush strokes, consisting of yellows, blue, black and the dominant black infuse with one another. To do this painting Turner was quite right in using oils, subtle effect, especially for this type of landscape.

New record contextual information about the work.

  'Turner's first oil painting in Tate Gallery. The depiction of the sea demonstrates a mastry of both particular and   generalities and contrast between the turbulent waters of the Solvent and the calmer water of the English Channel beyond the Needles. The night effect was influenced by Joseph Wright of moonlight scenes. From this first attempt at oil painting Turner goes on the paint his most important work, although he still extensively used watercolour especially on his sketching tours.

'Late Turner'

Title: The New Moon

Dimensions; 654 x 813mm

Dare: 184O

Write what you first impression are of the work.

  The first thing I have noticed was the mood, bright blocks of colours used and the line between sky and ground, Anothert hing that did catch my eye were shadows of people and two dogs, you can't really see how they look or what they doing but when I looked at it my imagination and suggestions worked.

Explain what you like about the work.

  I like that the artist haven't used dark colours, for example like in the early Turner. I like the atmosphere, what is going on the sea well as I do love the way he capture the sky and waves by only using watercolours.

Look closely at the work and write what techniques were used.

 This time the painting was made in calm lines used, you can't see the force through the lines of paint, only what comes out is what he wanted yo show. Sky also made similar technique, more energetic but still represent the same mood, calm and relax. By comparing both eras you can see how much did Turner changed.

Now record contextual information about the work and artist.

 As the mood appears over the Morgate sky, a dog playfully darts along the beach towards the sea, while two children stand bickering next to their mother. It is a timeless image with all the bright colours of the sunset on canvas. ''Morgate was inspirational for him because he came here as a child and later on life. He always said it was the quality of the light. Margate faces the north which is very unusual as the most places face south.''

The differences I notice between Turner's early and late work.

1. The mood used for both of the eras are really different and recognizable. Early work of Turner shows saddnes and anger but on later the colours and atmosphere is more sorted in and piece full.

2. The texture is more sorted in Later Turner then before well as more coloured used and only colours without any black used.

In my sketchbook i documented 3 contemporary artists I found in the Gallery.

Edwaed Lear, Gerald Scarfe and Rebecca Warren

20 minutes sketch Vanice from the Porch of Madonna della Salute, Turner.

Quick sketch of one drawing I liked that Turner has painted, I made rough sketch sa I didn’t had much time to do them both. I like the every detail of this painting, bright colours especially the reflection in the water. Then feather you look then lighter background is used, I underlined the buildings that aren't done in his painting. You can see many of boats at the front with some small ones with people on the front going for their own direction. The situation could be catches in Paris by seeing whole the water right on the middle of the town. I might try his technique feather, maybe also in my final piece. He always makes sky yo stand out but not mainly in his one. 

JMW Turner, Dutch Boats in a Gale 20 minutes sketch.

The rough sketch of Turner painting I done does reminds me of Japan style of art which isn't one of my favourites art type to use. As it is obvious that the Turner strong side was to paint sky, half or sometimes even more of paper was filled in with sky painting like for example in this painting and the rest is set with ground. I do like the boat detail used well as the whole combination that is made with really dark colours, mainly black used. I found difficult the waves to draw as you can see, this is because of many details and many lines used, shading that can take you so many hours. I may use his technique feather but probably using different type of landscapes.