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Oct 31, 2014 · Apollo and Python (1811) by JMW Turner. Photograph: Tate. In Turner’s painting Apollo and Python in Tate Britain, the ancient Greek god Apollo has just slain a horrific serpentine monster ...
Mr. Turner is a 2014 biographical drama film based on the last 25 years of the life of artist J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). Written and directed by Mike Leigh, the film stars Timothy Spall in the title role, with Dorothy Atkinson, Paul Jesson, Marion Bailey, Lesley Manville, and Martin Savage. It premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at ...
- $22.2 million
- Gary Yershon
- £8.4 million
- Georgina Lowe
Dec 18, 2014 · The son of a barber, Turner takes a disciplined, businesslike, artisanal approach to his vocation, and even though he often seems gripped by an almost otherworldly inspiration, he and his art ...
- Mike Leigh
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Dec 19, 2014 · Mr. Turner. Mr. Turner. Filmmaker Mike Leigh's biography of the landscape painter J.M.W. Turner is what critics call "austere"—which means it's slow and grim and deliberately hard to love—yet it's fascinating, and the performances and photography are outstanding. Leigh, the writer and director of such classics as "Naked" and " Secrets and ...
Nov 3, 2014 · It seems fitting that the biopic of one of Britain’s greatest and most prolific artists should be conceived by one of the country’s greatest and most prolific dramatists. In Mike Leigh’s latest film, the sublime Mr. Turner, the he depicts the later life of J.M.W. Turner, the landscape painter whose work prefigured both abstract art […]
Nov 3, 2014 · Set in the later years of the artist’s life, from 1828 onwards, Leigh’s film follows Turner through the denial of his daughters and the loss of his father (a wonderfully touching and tender ...
Nov 6, 2014 · The real Turner did indeed produce large numbers of rude sketches. The art critic John Ruskin claimed to have burned sheaves of them in 1858, but 10 years ago an expert at the Tate Gallery came to ...
