He is widely regarded as England’s greatest painter, but despite his extraordinary output, elements of JMW’s personality remain a mystery.
Now, a groundbreaking BBC Documentary documentary on Turner’s 37,000 sketches in True
Among the figures that help open the story of the artist’s life in Turner: The Secretary Sketchbookis actor Timothy Spall, who portrayed him in Mike Leight’s film Mr Turner, artists Ronnie musician Ronnie wood Ronnie wood Ronnie Chone and naturalist Chris Packham.
Pepsham said: “Like all people we suspect that there are neurodyern characteristics, from Alan Respecture, so we have a lot of impact on his art.
Packham, an ambassador for the National Autistic Society, pointed out in detail that Turner and his “Hypongfocus on a particular task such as ADHD and Autism.
“I see livestock there in terms of my own autistic thinking and approach to different things,” Pepher said. “Turner is clearly a person who, today, we say is focused on interest. I am still happy to call different locations. He has always returned to many locations. He has always returned for different reasons – a person who may not be satisfied with what he achieved there.
“I also saw the similarity of his attention to detail and his appropriate vision, which was especially shown in his childhood, in every single stone, every single stone, every single window, every single window – and how each figure came together.”
Raised in the gritty heart of Georgian London, Turner quickly became a star in the art world despite his humble beginnings. He enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts when he was only 14 and exhibited his first work there a year later.
But the artist had a difficult childhood. He died eight years after the death of his five-year-old brother. His mother, Maria, is believed to have a psychiatric illness and fly into a dangerous rage (she was later admitted to Betlem hospital, a mental asylum, where she died in 1804).
Guralin says that he interprets Turner’s paintings as expressions of “a troubled, chaotic inner world hidden from his outer expression”. He said that the skills and talents of the artist, in addition to the experiences he went through as a child, “combined with this incredible energy”.
“I’ve always been aware of Turner’s work,” says the New York-based psychologist. “But this documentary is an invitation to know a little about him as a person and suddenly opens this great door to the real expression of water, the clouds, the climate.”
For Guralin, Turner’s early ability to draw buildings reflected his obsessive need for stability.
Dr Amy Concannon, the Manton Senior Curator of historical art at Tate Britain, where the Turner & Constable Exhibition Opened this month, it is said that the nearly 300 sketchbooks attached to the money turner gave an opportunity “Pire to unite his life”.
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“They tell us where he’s going and when and we get closer to his mind than anything else,” he said. “From this you get a strong sense of Turner as a determined and focused individual… He was an amazingly productive artist, making sketches to launch gowning and fill the page as he traveled.
“The interpretation of it is always tricky but there is always something new to discover in them, which is partly because it takes more than the catalog of them.”
The BBC documentary captures the idea that Turner may have been the first climate change artist.
“He was born in the age of sail and died in the age of Steam, “says Pephefham.” That rapid technological change is clearly visible in his paintings. In battle temeraire, the ghostly and majestic old piece of technology that fought at Trafalgar was tied to a black and powerful steam tug. In rain, Steam and speed, the Steam Train shows the unstoppable force of the Industrial revolution and all that followed. “
Concannon pointed to Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, and Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, as evidence of Turner’s increasing fascination with changing industrial infrastructure, labor practices and pollution.
He said: “While Turner would not have been aware of climate change as we know it, he had a great sunsets created in his pictures.
That eruption, in what used to be the Dutch East Indies, “generally predates climate change in an earlier era”, says Pepsham. “Turner wants to be humbled by the greater unfathomable power and majesty of nature. It is not a volcano it is not a volcano that shapes the climate and leads to hunger and destruction of the earth, it is ourselves.”