Joseph Mallord William Turner – London from Greenwich Park exhibited Tate Britain (London)

Description of William Turner’s painting London

One of the young artists who began his artistic life as the simple son of a barber. His father exhibited his son’s art for sale, and they were in good demand. An artist noted the young boy’s talent and invited him to the Royal Academy of Art, where he was taught proper brushstroke and compositional basics. Like a true artist, Turner’s knowledge of these skills was not enough and he began his experiments based on observations of nature and people. An admirer of the Dutch oil brush, he recreated quite a few paintings in this technique.

The master worked in the style of Romanticism, which had a number of special features:

A return to folk traditions.

Rejection of evolution and the desire for technical progress.

Rejection of classical canons.

Reflection of the inner world of man.

For the artist were important connections that arise between man and nature. The subject offered to the viewer creates a double impression. On the one hand it shows the closeness to nature of civilization. The beauty and scenic beauty of the place is a highlight. On the other hand you can notice that the harmony is disturbed. Approximate trees and animals do not appear in the background, there is only wasteland and treelessness. The city is a staging post in the way of the wasteland.

The richness of life is conveyed through the thick shade of green and the movement of the animals, frozen in dynamic poses. They stare at the viewer, as if seeing in the viewer the hunter and destroyer of the realm of tranquility and harmony. The white buildings seem to erase the color from the painting, brightening and purifying the area.

The painting brings tranquility with its warm pastel tones that bring harmony to the human soul. Each detail is depicted carefully and is part of one whole that moves and lives its own life.