The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free

     As a little day trip, I had decided to go to Tate Britain this morning to visit 'The EY Exhibition: Late Turner' to have an open mind to gather even more inspiration to produce more ideas for this project of 'Structural Attachment in Mono'. I think that this was a very useful experience for me, despite the exhibition being made out of paintings, I could see the overall structure of the paintings landscapes and also how people may become attached to them, whether it was their hometown, a dream location or a sense of feeling towards the pieces. Plus, I love the way his brush strokes and washes make the paintings look as if they're a blurred memory of a certain location, telling us in future generations that this place will never look the same and now it will always be a distant memory to how things used to look. Moreover, I wasn't able to take any photographs, but I managed to get some from www.Tate.org.uk as a secondary resource. Tate quotes,

       "First exhibition devoted to the extraordinary work J.M.W. Turner created between 1835 and his death in 1851. Bringing together spectacular works from the UK and abroad, this exhibition celebrates Turner’s astonishing creative flowering in these later years when he produced many of his finest pictures but was also controversial and unjustly misunderstood… It is a panoramic survey of a bountiful and significant period of exceptional energy and vigour, maintained despite failing health."

    When it comes to painting, I have never been a truly devoted and enthusiastic artist to recreate something like this, but from all the variety of colours and the way J.M.W Turner creates his brush strokes relates very closely to the fall of a garment and it would even look very nice as a digital print on a garment. In addition, this is very similar to what Lisa Perry did for her 2015 S/S NYC Fashion Week collection, from when she had an artists work in the background to reflect her and her inspiration for her garments. Thus, indeed it shows that you can get inspiration from practically anywhere. Another thing I particularly liked about this exhibition was that it contained different elements of culture, generations, non-industrial, rural land and more, which gave a sense of history to his paintings and reflected his life to understand where and what time period he got his inspiration from. If I could do anything with this print, I would make it either a digital or sublimation print on a white piece of fabric, which could be used for either a skirt or top and it wouldn't have to be terribly precise because Turner uses a very fine wash of watercolour, hence it wouldn't be as noticeable. Moreover, I really like his choice of colour pallets, which tend to be more of a pastel tone and they usually follow through the entire painting, rather than something for example, Picasso with his abstract bold shapes to create a figure or object. Overall, this was a really interesting trip for me and I would like to see perhaps within the next week whether I could do something to this to create a sample or twirl from this inspiration or maybe even use these paintings as a start to something of my own creation.