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Sublime Seascapes: J.M.W. Turner’s 'Snowstorm'

Wed, 18 Oct

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Tresillian Arts Centre

Why does Turner’s 'Snowstorm – Steamboat off a Harbour’s Mouth' look much more modern than its date (1842)? Professor Read dives into this question and more in his latest art history lecture.

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Sublime Seascapes:   J.M.W. Turner’s 'Snowstorm'
Sublime Seascapes:   J.M.W. Turner’s 'Snowstorm'

Time & Location

18 Oct 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Tresillian Arts Centre, 21 Tyrell St, Nedlands WA 6009, Australia

About the Event

Why does Turner’s Snowstorm – Steamboat off a Harbour’s Mouth look much more modern than its date (1842)?

It is sometimes exciting to concentrate on a prescient work of art to illuminate a much broader set of issues. Right up to James Cameron’s epic movie of The Titanic, violent shipwrecks and ferries to Hell have inspired great works of Western art ranging from Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, Poussin's Return from the Flight into Egypt, Delacroix’s Virgil and Dante, Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, Winslow Homer's After the Hurricane, Kandinsky’s Study for Composition II to Andres Serrano's Death by Drowning.

This lecture shows how, at the height of the Industrial Revolution, J. M. W. Turner extended the conventions of the sublime first devised for landscape painting to marine painting. The radical mixture of traditional painting and up-to-the-minute reportage in Turner’s painting of a steamship in a storm is also a competition with…

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    This ticket includes lecture and open discussion

    $30.00

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