Finally today I was able to see one of the most awaited exhibitions of the year: that of Joseph Mallord William Turner, a.k.a. JMW Turner, the great English artist of the 19th century.
At the Grand Palais you can see Turner's paintings, but also those of his masters and rivals, all of who he took as inspiration from the day he graduated from London's Royal Academy of Arts till his very death bed in 1851.
Prolific artist indeed, he left 300 paintings, plus 20.000 drawings and watercolors and became the most important British landscape painter of his time. However, he always knew how to stay open to the work of others, learning without copying, giving shape to his unique artistic freedom that had its creative peak during the final years of his life. You can see this very clearly in the exhibit, specially when comparing his paintings with the works of Nicolas Poussin or those of Claude Gellèe (a.k.a. le Lorrain), which are absolutely outstanding. To prove it, just see his "Le Debarquement de Cleopatre à Tarse," which is breathtaking...!
Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus.
You can also see paintings by Tiziano, Rembrandt, Veronese, Watteau, Pierre-Henry de Valenciennes and by the English Thomas Gainsborough, August Well Callcott, Richard Parkers Bonington, among others. But most of all, I was impressed by Jacob von Ruysdael's "Sea Storm," which has an incfedible force!
Of course, I also adored some of Turner's paintings, as for example "La Plage de Calais," or his very own "Sea Storm."
Beach of Calais
The exhibition will be opened till May 24th and then will be taken to the Prado Museum in Madrid, from June 21st till September 19th.
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