It runs through Feb. Turner was born in the early years of the Industrial Revolution and witnessed spectacular technological innovations and the mechanization of modern life, often making sketches in small notebooks, later to be turned into vivid and dramatic compositions.
He explored British life with art such as The Interior of a Tilt Forge from one of his pocket sketchbooks and British politics, in such works as The Northampton Election. He was not only a witness to modernity, but an interpreter and champion for his generation.
Had Turner produced only the landscapes in oils and watercolors where he started, he still would be recognized for his great art, said Exhibition Curator George T. Shackelford, deputy director at the Kimbell. Scenes from that time are displayed in a section of the exhibit called Home Front, depicting life in Britain while its soldiers were engaged in battle on the continent. One painting shows peasant farmers plowing turnips. But there is a second meaning that would have been so clear to a viewer in the early years of the 19th century.
And so, just as around Notre Dame people stood and watched as the cathedral was burning, here, thousands of people are gathered on the banks of the Thames. Shackelford cites a painting called Disaster at Sea , perhaps destined for exhibition at the Royal Academy and believed to be inspired by the wreck of a ship called The Amphitrite, which left Britain bound for the penal colonies in Australia with a cargo — Shackleford says he uses that word advisedly — of female convicts and children. The ship foundered off the coast of France.
It seems like it would have been such a spectacular painting. Industrial development brought machines to the workplace, made possible the spread of steam power and resulted in a massive redistribution of the rapidly growing population from the country to newly industrialized cities. And that gave Turner new material for both paintings and visual commentary on quality of life in the industrial age.
The invention of the steam engine at the end of the 18th century , and its adoption for industry in the first two decades of the 19th century provided Turner with much inspiration. And Turner was really, I believe, commenting … on how London and the British landscape was changed by the arrival of the industrial age.
Turner said he put forward the story that he had had himself lashed to the mast of a steamboat out in the snowstorm. This is the side of Turner that has kept him living on in the imagination, particularly in the imagination of painters.
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