A little snippet from Timothy Spall, the actor tells Art Quarterly - TopicsExpress



          

A little snippet from Timothy Spall, the actor tells Art Quarterly magazine how he learned to paint for his role as JMW Turner in Mike Leighs Mr Turner. Another work of Turner’s I love is Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight. Not only is it beautiful, it has everything that arc-ed his world: nature and the industrial revolution. He was a painter of the sublime. That word has come to mean something rather camp how, something you say after you’ve tasted something nice in a restaurant. But ‘the sublime’ then was the power of nature, and man’s irrelevance within it and the futility of attempting to conquer it. That’s what Turner painted, that ferocious competition between beauty and horror. Film release 31st October 2014.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:03:35 +0000

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