ENG 4339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 59: J. M. W. Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Sentimentality
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Art in theory reading: joseph mallord william turner (1775-1851) on colour. Born in london, achieved early success at the royal academy. He was elected a full member in 1802 and professor of perspective in 1807. In the academic tradition, color had been subordinate to drawing. Only with scientific developments at the end of the 18th century did colour come to be seen as a serious and systematic issue in the teaching of art, and a proper subject of aesthetic reflection. Mixing colors reduces the purity of the first and all beyond is monotony, discord and mud. The color red possesses the utmost power of attracting attention, it being the first ray of light and the first which acknowledges the diminishing of light. Recipes for colouring or the quantum of light and shade could but extend into mediocrity, and general practice into manner instead of purity of style. : john constable (1776-1837) four letters to john fisher.
