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Thursday, 12 June 2014

Peter Paul Rubens Paintings And Turner Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Among the most original European landscapes and seascapes were the Turner paintings. They showed mastery in British watercolour landscape painting, commonly referred to as the painting of light. Joseph Turner studied at the Royal Academy schools starting at the age of 14. Since then, he has exhibited at the Academy nearly every year for the rest of his existence.

The Fighting Temeraire has always been regarded as one of the great landscape Turner paintings. It was completed in 1839. Joseph Turner had a fascination with the powers of natured and ultimately turned this fascination into canvas. Later Turner paintings focused on the new abilities of the industrial revolution machines.

With their romanticism, Turner paintings would later have an influence on the Impressionist movement. Romanticism is itself a by-product of the Neoclassical movement that properly accounted for history through its close attention to detail. Turner paintings are credited for having embarked on a subject matter so great it actually rivalled the history genre.

Peter Paul Rubens paintings were the most influential Baroque artwork in Northern Europe. They were sensual paintings of full-bodied women which gave rise to the term Rubenesque. Peter painted many extravagant portraits of European royalty. He was called a prince of painters and a painter of princes by critics.

His first wife, Isabella Brant, was a constant subject of the Peter Paul Rubens paintings. His second wife, Helene Fourment, was an extremely beautiful woman and her buxom figure was the inspiration behind many paintings. This included versions of The Judgment of Paris where Helene appeared as Venus, Minerva and Juno.

Among the well known Peter Paul Rubens paintings are The Descent from the Cross, Wolf and Fox Hunt and The Garden of Love. They are depictions of subjects from a variety of sources, i.e., religion, history and mythology. They combined a knowledge of Renaissance classicism with lush brushwork and lively realism.




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