By the Imaginative Panorama of J. M. W. Turner

I want to introduce my mission devoted to the good English painter of the Romantic period, J. M. W. Turner. The organisation of the mission on Turner, which took virtually two years, was, personally, an awesome problem for me. However, I’ve been concerned in related initiatives for fairly some time and have sensible expertise with them. Since 2015 I’ve been systematically engaged on initiatives – first centered on writers (Karel Hynek Mácha, Hans Christian Andersen, Antione de Saint Exupéry) and now on distinguished painters (César Manrique, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joan Miró). I all the time select artwork protagonists who distinctly differ from one another.

Within the final 5 years, a bunch of individuals desirous about these occasions has shaped round my initiatives and the ICM & ME photographic methods on the whole. It’s my endeavour to contain not solely photographers but additionally individuals desirous about different artwork varieties – work, graphics, ceramics, poetry, and so on. Seven photographers and one painter from the Czech Republic participated within the mission on J. M. W. Turner – Miroslava Bedřichová, Jitka Bejdáková, Hana Janíčková, Vladimír Kysela, Lea Luxemburgová, Miroslava Trusková, Břetislav Ulrich a Stanislav Zela.

Throughout the course of the mission, we made two visits to the Turner Assortment in TATE Britain, spent per week within the Lake District and subsequently additionally 5 days in Venice – that’s, in two areas consultant of the exteriors captured in JMW Turner’s work, together with London, the place he lived. We actually took 1000’s of images and tried to interpret them in our personal particular person narratives relying on our particular person understanding of this nice painter’s work. On this manner, greater than 100 artworks have been created, 70 of that are offered in our joint e-book and 25 are displayed at our joint exhibition in Prague.

JMW Turner put nice effort into approaching complexity in his landscapes; that’s, he would usually mirror on up to date improvement in England and Europe. Turner lived by means of a time of key social and political modifications – the entire Napoleonic period beginning with Napoleon getting into the political scene and his notorious finish in St Helena; he lived by means of the wars with France and Spain, throughout his time, the Declaration of Independence was pronounced in America, steam powered railway passenger transportation began, and the primary steamship crossed the Atlantic. And Turner was ready to reply to all these in his work – by means of the selection of topics, colors, symbolism. Apart from that, he was the genius who considerably developed and shifted using watercolours, together with steady testing of latest supplies – each paints and paper.

Throughout the course of the mission, we made two visits to the Turner Assortment in TATE Britain, spent per week within the Lake District and subsequently additionally 5 days in Venice – that’s, in two areas consultant of the exteriors captured in JMW Turner’s work, together with London, the place he lived.

Lake District – Might 2022

The climate was not too good, however, anybody can take a photograph of an attractive sundown. We travelled by means of all the principle areas of the Lake District, mixed lake and seaside landscapes, technical particulars in addition to historic nooks. The Lake District is consultant of the standard countryside with lakes that Turner would so continuously paint. We photographed in varied locations, as an illustration, close to Buttermere, Honister Go, Whitehaven, Keswick /Derwent Water, Barrow-in Furness, Elter Water, or the Castlerigg stone circle…

Venice – September 2022

In Venice, you realise why Turner was in a position to incorporate a lot area, air transparency and usually energetic colors into his works. On our go to to Venice, we centered on the locations the place Turner actively painted, that’s, the islands of the Lagoon, the dawn and night views of San Marco throughout the Lagoon, and on taking images of the canals at dawn. Clearly, we didn’t keep away from the central components of Venice both, as much as the Biennale Gardens the place this yr’s Biennale Arte was culminating.

The Exhibition “By the Imaginative Panorama of J. M. W. Turner”

The number of artworks for the joint exhibition in Prague was carried out within the following method: First, every member of the group selected ten works that they needed to current in our joint e-book. Subsequently, the gallery curator, Mrs Vlasta Čiháková Noshiro, selected these works which she needed to current within the gallery. The Gallery of Artwork Critics is a prestigious gallery which specialises in work and so the chance to show our images there may be completely distinctive for us!

The official exhibition opening came about on December fifteenth in Prague. The exhibition will probably be proven till January fifteenth, 2023. However, already through the course of the exhibition, we have been contacted by different potential exhibition organisers, so it’s most certainly that the exhibition will probably be proven in different cities as nicely. Now, we want to introduce one work by every of the authors with their very own commentary.

Miroslava Bedřichová

I’ve seen and visited solely a small a part of the area that Turner would so continuously go to and paint. I composed the ultimate assortment from images that have been taken by likelihood, so to say, in moments after I forgot concerning the mission – shocked by the calmness that the Turnerian, huge and uncooked locations may result in in me. The offered {photograph} is named Bezčasí 3 (Timelessness 3) and was taken within the Lake District, particularly in Drigg; identical to nearly all of footage on this assortment. It may be seen right here:
https://eu.zonerama.com/Bedrischka/Album/9101214

Jitka Bejdáková

Turner’s canvases might be recognised at first sight. The unmistakable color vary with the dominance of golden ochres, yellows and turquoise blues, his brushwork – fairly liberal, from free to wildly unrestrained, motion, pleasure, gentle results and fog… I centered on Venice. It’d happen to us that any human endeavour will ultimately be devoured by nature and returned to its authentic state as if it had by no means existed. But, it’s value preventing, creating freely with a swing, and braveness, transfer ahead, rising, ripen, identical to Turner did, and it doesn’t matter that it may not final without end. If it speaks to contemporaries and enriches them, it suffices, and even when it didn’t, the reward is within the writer’s contemplation and expression of his conclusions.

Hana Janíčková

I like J.M.W. Turner for his sensible work with colors and light-weight. My {photograph} “Jarní” (Spring) was impressed by his gentle watercolours that captured the English countryside. I attempted to seize the ambiance of the lake district flooded by early morning gentle in springtime.

Vladimír Kysela

On this explicit mission, my alternative was to observe the road reflecting industrial improvement as a result of Turner usually handled the topic of the Industrial Revolution, and I discovered it fascinating to push this theme virtually advert absurdum. In precept, I needed to take a look at the English/Venetian panorama and introduce industrial connotations in it from at the present time, although. The image We Stand in Desolate Splendor is the principle one in my mission and represents for me Turner’s function within the improvement of society because the “Witness of Need and Messiah of Gentle”. It’s a collage of takes from London the place Turner lived. My complete mission might be seen at:
https://vladimirkysela.com/en/contemplations-en/jmw-turner-en/

Miroslava Trusková

The fascinating eye of the storm that doesn’t allow you to look away. You may solely observe how the sky takes within the sea, and the water takes within the sky. After which, the golden contact of solar seems, an phantasm of land, of a stable level on the floor. As soon as once more, the mass rolls over, and the fleeting spectacle is gone. Maybe that picture is simply the iris with no pupil. You blink, and the dancing gentle will enter you as soon as and without end.

In his work, Turner captured each the wild countryside and concrete landscapes, occasions from the early days of the Industrial Revolution, but additionally unrest on this planet… Our era finds itself in the midst of turbulent improvement – We observe modifications in climate, delicate winters, extra frequent tornadoes, violent storms, and floods. Then again, there are droughts, rivers drying out, melting glaciers, rainforests are being lower and burnt down… The place is our horizon of occasions? With my image, I venerate nature that we’re so usually detached to, however which is past us, outdoors of us, it might probably destroy us, and we’ll bow to it in awe.
https://www.truskova.eu/en/fine-art-photography/project-j-m-w-turner/

Břetislav Ulrich

I found JMW Turner for myself a few years in the past, and I nonetheless admire his work and watercolours. But it has by no means occurred to me to mirror his works in my images. Ultimately, it occurred, although, when, by coincidence, I joined this mission.

When taking and modifying images, I didn’t observe a transparent set plan however labored intuitively – I let the landscapes encourage and information me, being influenced solely by my prior data of Turner’s work. “Derwent Water”: I’d say this {photograph} not solely captures the fantastic thing about nature but additionally insinuates the darkish forces in it.

Stanislav Zela

A few years in the past, there have been those that have been anxious that images may change portray. It didn’t occur. In some ways, it might probably complement and assist it. Many well-known painters labored from images, and in the present day, photographers problem themselves to make works that resemble work on canvas. To surrender correct realism and sharpness and to supply a artistic interpretation on this planet of pixels, zeros and ones. Neither paper nor the shiny display can change a rough canvas in its three-dimensionality and odor of turpentine. Can this be completed? Will anybody take an curiosity in it?

Different Hyperlinks

e-book “By the Imaginative Panorama of J.M.W. Turner”

The e book summarises our journey in J. M. W. Turner’s tracks and might be downloaded free of charge at:
https://vladimirkysela.com/en-ebooks/ebook-imaginativni-krajinou-jmw-turnera/

It’s in Czech, nonetheless, there are greater than 100 images – ultimate works by the person group members in addition to footage documenting the journeys inside the mission

Weblog, devoted to the mission on J.M.W. Turner

Chosen weblog posts (EN) might be discovered at:
https://vladimirkysela.com/en/tag/turner-en/

Conclusion

We hope that our mission has been of curiosity to you. We’d particularly wish to thank Graham Cook dinner, who willingly spent his time with us on one among our visits to TATE Britain, which we extremely recognize!

ps: Really, my Turner has been internationally awarded, under is the desk of silver choice from the New York Pictures Awards 2022.