J.M.W. Turner – Acrista Cafe https://acrista-cafe.com the blog of artist Alexandrina Karadjova Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:20:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://acrista-cafe.com/wp-content/cropped-acrista-a-logo-32x32.png J.M.W. Turner – Acrista Cafe https://acrista-cafe.com 32 32 “Mr. Turner” https://acrista-cafe.com/en/mr-turner-2/ Thu, 05 Mar 2015 07:40:16 +0000 http://acrista-cafe.com/?p=7182 I have been waiting for this movie for a long time, because I imagined it will be a worthy pearl amongst the movies about artists. and indeed, Mike Leigh has created a wonderful illustration (balancing the facts with fiction well) of the adult years of Joseph Mallord William Turner, up to his death. At the beginning there is a lot of humor in the otherwise oppressive and archaic setting, but as the years go by the mood becomes darker and darker – a reflection of the artist’s experiences… “loneliness and solitude are two different things”…

I doubt there is a better choice for the role of the growling and eccentric Turner than Timothy Spall (I’m not sure why he was not nominated for this role), who brilliantly plays his blunt and at times unrefined character carrying pencil and sketchbook everywhere to gather ideas.

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