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I developed my interest in landscape painting and appreciation for natural surroundings at a young age, and years before my research I was enchanted by JMW Turner’s works with landscape. I tried to identify what’s the reason behind such enthusiasm that bought me to landscape painting. At the same time, I felt amazed by the sense of coherence that links viewers and the creator a few centuries apart.
Therefore, I decided to schedule a visit to Tate Britain Drawing and prints study room requested to view Mr. Turner’s archive of watercolor drawings. It was such a great resource to visit in person and study the details in a private space.
It was a quiet and warm visit.
The colour is smooth as mist floating by and tender you can't bear to land on the surface.
It is also bright, the urge to let you stay on it. I recognized the air flowing from the 1830s, such a fragile touch of space. It is not hard to recognize the landscape from his painting, but it feels like it can be anywhere. It is capable of letting us in regardless of one’s cultural background or understanding of him. It is intensely bringing myself upon an intimate discussion within the space, expanding for where we recognized we are in this reality. It is so direct and urgent to interact with. Feeling the loss of verbal conversation we can include the experience within.
Pulling back a bit after my visit. Realizing much of the drawing with less color or stroke is giving a more direct way to explore the space. I feel there is much more to interact with. For such reasons, viewers are finding more ways to get inside the space. More space for imagination, with the description we use commonly. But I feel like imagination is not enough to describe such a situation, it is not only creating new feelings but combining the connection with artists’ vision through time and space.
After the viewing section of the appointment in the study room, I visited some other artists' work. Compared with the works from John Richart, watercolor landscapes compose the space in such a delicate way of description, the light from solar through clouds. What I found is so different that Turner's work with much fewer descriptions but the more we are able to see in, the more I see in John’s landscape, it is seemingly the less I intended to think of.
