Influential Art – Painters (Annotations), Landscape

Influential Art – Painters (Annotations), Landscape

Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway

Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (Turner, 1844)

What is denoted?

The information denoted from the artwork shows a train going across the bridge in the fog. The images denotes that the train is coming towards the painting at a fast pace.

What is Connoted?

The information connoted is the power of the steam train coming down the emotion shown from this is power because of the speed that the train is coming down. The painting is communicating styles that the train is coming into the station across the river. From Looking at the image. The power of the steam coming up highlights the effect from this.

How are you affected as a viewer?

On looking at the painting the first thing that I see is the viaduct coming down to the train this makes the painting look different because of the way it has been portrayed to the viewer as the drawn down by using leading lines to join up with the trains. I am amused with the way the photo has been presented.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

The work is similar to what I am thinking about producing with taking the leading lines and working with them. The composition of the train has been done to draw but show the area off. The painting works with how I am wanting to shoot by project with something going on. A parameter of emulating this would require me to get a photo of the train coming into the area. Then make the model stand out in the studio.

Strengths & Weakness

The strengths of this work highlight the time that the steam trains came past the area in the times with the steam captured by the style that has been achieved with the style of the white. The weakness is that it is hard to follow what is going on with the train hard to spot in the painting. However I think this is what he wanted. I would probably make the train slightly bigger to make it easier to follow

What ideas (or visual styles) will you take forward to think about in your work?

In my work will be different as we do not have any steam trains operating anymore in kent apart from the heritage and this would also be done with a fusion of a landscape portrait to highlight suicide on the railway this will be done to highlight the personal consequences and of other of suicide.

Who is the intended audience?

The intended audience for this work were people at galleries as it was displayed shortly after, this was contemporary for the time that turner was alive. It is similar to others I have seen as photographs on the wall in similar styles. The image has changed the way I have read due to the idea I have formulated to do a piece on mental health awareness and suicide to go with introduction to Creative Photographic Practice with linking it cruel and tender.

What context have you seen the work in? & Is the work part of a bigger series?

I have seen this work on the computer screen which removes the power of the steam and the sky which in the secondary source area due to this. I think if I saw this in the gallery it will be powerful as I could communicate with the painting and see the effects that painting has on me. Turner has done other works in his life and he has done similar images to what he has done.

Art Movement

The work is all landscape painting in the movement of Romanticism which the artist moves freely and is true to themselves

Interior of St Cunerakerk, Rhenen (Bassen, 1638)

Interior of St Cunerakerk, Rhenen

What is denoted?

The images show an inside of the church with people walking inside there.

What is Connoted?

The connotations from this painting is that it is emptiness and that no one is really here the image depicts royalty only caring about the religion. The painting makes it look big and so it can stand out to people in there.

How are you affected as a viewer?

The 1st thing that you see when looking at the painting is that people are looking at the colours which are in the centre. The emotions are emptiness because there are hardly anyone there which is bad on mental health and that they are invisible.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

I think the colours work well as it shows what the church looks like and the use of negative space makes it look like a blank canvas which he wanted in his works. I think I will use the space to make it look empty with the idea of mental health.

Strengths & weaknesses

I think that the strengths from this painting is that it captures what is like being inside the church and captures the mood. The weakness though it does not show more people enjoying what it going on there.

What ideas (or visual styles) will you take forward to think about in your work?

My work will be done with landscape and portait to make sure that I can show what is going on with peoples health and what needs imporving to make them feel better in the long run.

Who is the intended audience?

I think the audince was meant for people who saw what he had done as an architect and they can see what he paintited before or after to get insipration. This was intended for a gallery.

What context have you seen the work in?

I have only seen this work online at the national gallery’s website it would look stronger if I was to see this artwork in the flesh. Also reading further into this he was an architect which meant that he could desgin the area and then pain on this.

Is the work part of a bigger series?

The artists have produced more similar paintings of different churches and castles to show the interior and to be shown as interior design.