Turner's work is magnificent

What an excellent interdisciplinary presentation! With such presentation and artistic skills, as well as engineering, Rob must be a right brain/left brain person. He finds commonality, science, and emotion in the grand breadth of Turner's oeuvre. I too am one of those, seemingly few, with a graduate science degree who appreciates art. To others who like science and art, in literature, I recommend Jules Verne's classic "The Mysterious Island," which I recently read. Although a novel, it is full of the detailed science of everything, literally everything, needed for castaways to create an advanced civilization. It is intellectually stimulating yet humbling at the same time, because it makes you wonder if you really understood what you thought you had learned. The book's style and content are so different from "Around the World in 80 Days" that it feels like a different author.

Thank you very much Mr. Bell for such an insightful talk.

Thanks for this marvelous new insight into the works of one of the greatest British landscape artists of all time!!👍👍😍😍❤️❤️

Wonderful presentation! Erudite, informed, knowledgeable, and articulate! Masterful!

I hope HE has more videos... 👍🫶🥇

I love looking at Turners paintings in the National Gallery and Tate Britain. Such variation but all with passion and energy.

Turner's work is magnificent for sure

@nationalgallery

2 ай бұрын

We couldn't agree more!

Nicely done presentation!

Fantastic ❤

Rain, Steam and Speed is such a wonderful, gloriously inspiring picture even now, 200 years later. I can’t imagine what impact it must have had at that time. I think of Turner as the first abstract painter, decades ahead of the European abstracts. Of course his work was denigrated by many and he was not really a ‘Salon’ artist despite being a full member of the British Academy. He liked to shock with his layer works. We have John Ruskin to thank for publicly supporting his later more controversial artwork.

Excellent, enthusiastic presentation.

@nationalgallery

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great talk with an interesting perspective!

art a drama of light and shadow now explained with a eye of an engineer ….. very astonising❤

Brilliant presentation!

Great presentation, and I love Turner's works

Don't panic, we are not drowning. Perspective !

Brings me back to the gallery. Love it!

A great video - thank you! I enjoyed it!

@nationalgallery

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

As you certainly know, Turner's first employer was as a draftsman for an architect - when he was 14 years old!

They all miss the tiny plough and horses on the right in the train painting

Nicely presented

@nationalgallery

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Excelent!

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A great presentation in regard to content. But I 'd prefer it WITHOUT the soundtrack. This is an analysis, not a movie.

I'm not a fan of Turner's mixture of light source and shadows, which are often inconsistent. He seems to prefer drama over realism.