TURNER, TURNED ME AROUND.
Have you seen Mike Leigh’s film « Mr Turner »? I was invited to the special viewing at the Louvre and Mike Leigh was there to talk about it. As I was about to visit London to see Pierrette and the Turner, I thought the film would give me some insight into his work.
Frankly it was the man I got to « know ». A grumpy, grouchy person with a strong cockney accent. A man of the street who throughout his life invented « other names » so he could stay incognito. The film is fascinating and I would certainly recommend it, but I didn’t come out liking the man. (Turner: Baptized in May 1775-1851) The exhibition,(Late Turner, "Painting set Free") at the Tate was on the last 15 years of his life. Created between 1835 and his death in 1851.His work has always stirred passions, especially in the later years when many of this paintings were met with derision by the conservative critics of the time. Even to the extent of being described as « slapdash, evidence of a diseased eye and reck