What Role Does Text Play In Paintings By JMW Turner?
What Role does text play in paintings by JMW Turner?
Intro
In this thesis, I am trying to show the relationship that text had on Turners works and how they generated meaning where to a huge part constituted through texts, and by an allusion to text. Looking at different approaches to Turners work, such as Nicholas Alfrey, Alexandra Wettlaufer, Andrew Wilton and Jerold Ziff, I am exploring the reasons to what reason Turner put text in and distorted them but also why putting text in helped in the understanding of his end goal of ultimately finding and depicting the end goal of reaching the sublime.
Turner’s painting is sublime precisely because it does not imitate the natural scene.
Background
From the age of fourteen, Turner was associated …show more content…
In the first stage, he used the use of text from famous poets to elevate his paintings, then for the second stage of trying to reach the sublime, he still incorporated the text into the painting changing the way the stylistic oeuvre of paintings. Creating a visceral experience with a bigger canvas, more color and bolder brushwork, enabling the viewer feels in the canvas. Just like it’s hard to see and describe the power of the wind and force of nature, Turner takes this into meaning the sublime, something we cannot see it but we can feel it and experience its power but we cannot do anything to stop or dull the forces of nature showing how powerless humans are in comparison to nature. Later works became more obscure, Richard Read is saying that due to arts abstract nature, it’s not just copying a simple landscape, it's adding more to the painting a deeper meaning in the abstraction of the work. It gives an element of the imagination to the picture that had not been previously done before. Whereas Burke is arguing that word allows more of the sublime because it has no one source or image to set in stone, it is more mysterious and ominous. Humanities relationship with the unexpected physical and unknown opposed the institute. Creating a sublime piece of art, you show and depict something that people have never had the experience of felling in surpassing the “traditional voice.” Through the addition of words that resonate with our imagery with Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway our imagination falls from the suggestive language of the familiar. The painting is a snapshot in time, however, through the words, it evokes movement through mental imagery overtaking your physical experience. The lack of detail creates an
Intro
In this thesis, I am trying to show the relationship that text had on Turners works and how they generated meaning where to a huge part constituted through texts, and by an allusion to text. Looking at different approaches to Turners work, such as Nicholas Alfrey, Alexandra Wettlaufer, Andrew Wilton and Jerold Ziff, I am exploring the reasons to what reason Turner put text in and distorted them but also why putting text in helped in the understanding of his end goal of ultimately finding and depicting the end goal of reaching the sublime.
Turner’s painting is sublime precisely because it does not imitate the natural scene.
Background
From the age of fourteen, Turner was associated …show more content…
In the first stage, he used the use of text from famous poets to elevate his paintings, then for the second stage of trying to reach the sublime, he still incorporated the text into the painting changing the way the stylistic oeuvre of paintings. Creating a visceral experience with a bigger canvas, more color and bolder brushwork, enabling the viewer feels in the canvas. Just like it’s hard to see and describe the power of the wind and force of nature, Turner takes this into meaning the sublime, something we cannot see it but we can feel it and experience its power but we cannot do anything to stop or dull the forces of nature showing how powerless humans are in comparison to nature. Later works became more obscure, Richard Read is saying that due to arts abstract nature, it’s not just copying a simple landscape, it's adding more to the painting a deeper meaning in the abstraction of the work. It gives an element of the imagination to the picture that had not been previously done before. Whereas Burke is arguing that word allows more of the sublime because it has no one source or image to set in stone, it is more mysterious and ominous. Humanities relationship with the unexpected physical and unknown opposed the institute. Creating a sublime piece of art, you show and depict something that people have never had the experience of felling in surpassing the “traditional voice.” Through the addition of words that resonate with our imagery with Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway our imagination falls from the suggestive language of the familiar. The painting is a snapshot in time, however, through the words, it evokes movement through mental imagery overtaking your physical experience. The lack of detail creates an