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...time there was a major Turner show in the U.S., 41 years ago, he was treated as a forerunner not only of the Impressionists but also of the Abstract Expressionists and color-field painters, of Mark Rothko and his pulsing fogs or Morris Louis and his washes of diluted pigment. But in recent years, scholars have been at pains to draw Turner back into the context of his times, to emphasize that he was eager to paint history and contemporary events and to look to the past as much as the future...
...artist so taken by the sun, Turner was no Apollo. He was short, squat and beak-nosed. The offspring of a London barber, he spoke all his life with a Cockney accent. Even after he started to make good money, which happened soon, his fingernails were caked with pigment, and he kept one of them long, like a blues guitarist does, so that he could use it to scratch directly into the paint. Like Billy Joel or Elton John, he was a commoner who made good...
...school. But Turner would have been a disaster as a portraitist. He could draw as well as the best of them. In watercolor he could produce something like molecular detail, notwithstanding that one of his typical techniques was to soak the entire sheet in water, rub in raw pigment, blot it with rags and sponges and then painstakingly work up finer detail within the misty blooms of color. Yet as he matured, his deepest impulse wasn't to delineate form but to dissolve it. And where was the earl who wanted to be remembered as a blot...
...raking light”—lighting a surface from the side and illuminating various sketches on the sculpture and the weathering pattern of the stone—as well as using photography under ultraviolet light, archaeologists were able to trace the remaining pigment residues on the sculptures, and so recreate the appropriate colors that adorned these pieces of art. The exhibit is separated into three time periods: Greek sculptures from the archaic and classical period (c. 600 B.C.E — c. 330 B.C.E), sculptures from the Hellenistic period (c. 330 B.C.E — c.31 B.C.E...
...there a naked man tottering about on the roof of the pleasant English country house? Why, for that matter, is a malevolent dwarf residing in a casket intended for someone else? Should we worry about the "pigment mutation" that is obsessing a hypochondriac guest? Do we really have to endure the spectacular incontinence of dear old Uncle Alfie...