Thursday, June 5, 2014

Turner Paintings And Peter Paul Rubens Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Turner paintings were among the most original of landscapes and seascapes in Europe. They featured new techniques to make the skies and clouds appear luminous and expressive. Joseph Turner was thought to be insane because his paintings were so different from what other artists were churning out.

One of the great seascape Turner paintings was The Fighting Temeraire, done in 1839. A subsequent 1844 painting, Rain, Steam and Speed, was to influence the Impressionist painters, 30 years from when it was originally exhibited. Joseph Turner was often described as the greatest landscape painter of the 19th century.

Turner paintings went on to later influence the Impressionist movement with their romanticism focusing particularly on color and lighting. Romanticism is sometimes viewed as a reaction to its more serious predecessor, the Neoclassical movement. Romantic paintings flirted with themes of man's self glorification, man's part in nature, divinity found in nature and emotion.

Peter Paul Rubens paintings were the most influential Baroque artwork in Northern Europe. They were sensual paintings of full-bodied women which gave rise to the term Rubenesque. Peter painted many extravagant portraits of European royalty. He was called a prince of painters and a painter of princes by critics.

The two wives of Peter, Isabella Brant and Helene Fourment, figured prominently as both subjects and inspirations in many Peter Paul Rubens paintings. One of the last paintings seen by King Charles I, before his ultimate execution outside the front door of the Banqueting House in London was Peter's only surviving ceiling painting.

Peter Paul Rubens paintings that are world renowned include The Descent from the Cross, Wolf and Fox Hunt, Peace and War, Self-Portrait with Helena and Peter Paul and The Garden of Love. Peter's success is attributable to his skill in arranging complex groupings of figures in a composition, his ability to work on a large scale, his ease at depicting diverse subjects and his personal eloquence and charm.




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