![]() ![]() It is rare for a work to suggest as crucially how much of art and philosophy come out of solitude. The motion picture ends, too, with an image of the solitary artist. ![]() Turner begins with a single image-of sun, country plain, windmill, stream-and then across that landscape two women move, and the focus of the image itself begins to shift, showing a man in the distance, standing-and the man is Turner. There has been a new opportunity to think of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s efforts and accomplishment again, with the creation of a gorgeous digital motion picture by the director Mike Leigh, focusing on the last years of the painter’s life. His work reflected not merely craft and observation but the revelations of perception and consciousness given order and meaning. Joseph Mallord William Turner was a painter of landscape and light, of water and wonder and in his life and work an observer can see some of the lasting complexities of human existence-complexities of perception and mind, of passion and ideals, of liberation and duty. One looks at the work of an artist and notices things small and large-the colors and shapes, the scene and story, the feeling and thought that create a vision: together a painting’s elements inspire new understanding of matters familiar and strange, natural and constructed. Turnerīy Daniel Garrett Volume 20, Issue 12 / December 2016 19 minutes (4672 words) Civilization and Savagery: Painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, the subject of Mike Leigh’s film Mr. ![]()
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