Twice I stopped abruptly on the way to copy the painting. The sudden rainstorm-style crying scene formed a strong contrast with the usual stern Turner. The first time was facing a 22-year-old young prostitute. When I was a young woman, I realized that there were only two times in the whole film, the director gave this great romantic "poet" a real outlet to show his emotions, and even the paintings that should best reflect his spiritual world, the director They did not give too much brush and ink, but put the emphasis on the part of the artist behind these paintings as a "human". As a human being, one cannot escape from the mundane, and cannot get rid of desires. Mr. Turner's two griefs are a symbol of The externalization of emotions that are not understood by the world, and this is also the self-blame and helplessness of his daughter who died early without fulfilling her father's obligations. It can be seen that Turner did not receive benign guidance for the role of mother in childhood. Maybe that's one of the things that makes him seem withdrawn and weird.
The three things that impressed me the most about the film are the place where the inspiration for the work "Slave Ship" was born. It was the conversation between Turner and her husband at Mrs Booth's house. This dark history left an indelible impact on him and completely changed his life. Turner sighed after listening to it: "Humanity, two words, with his unique stubbornness and disdain, but he looked out the window with deep eyes, the anxiety and imperfect entanglement about human nature and existence are always there, but How to release and reconcile these emotions has become the truth that Turner has been trying to explore.
The second place was at a luxurious baroque party. The half-drunk Turner couldn't help but admire the young and beautiful lady beside him. The same" "It will come after all, it will definitely come", these two sentences shook my mind, it will definitely come, what is it that is sure that it will come?
Of course, it is an era when everyone is free to create, think freely, art is not bound by other things, and truly self-disciplined.
Turner, who is not understood, always uses a pseudonym when facing strangers, and calls himself a "chief judge". The judge's job is to judge guilty people and maintain legal order. In Turner's eyes, he wants to be human. The torturer, at the same time, is the guide who excavates the beauty of everything in the world and shows it to people. There is some tragic and romantic heroism in it, but he used saliva, cream, and yellow sauce to paint, but today we can see that Turner is not only satisfied with this, he wants to express spiritual concepts more avant-garde , in the age of false and flashy capitalism, to depict unpredictable disaster landscapes rather than figures that seem to really express "people", those can only make him laugh (Turner in the film at the exhibition Looking at the paintings that were mainly painted by people during the Renaissance, in fact, they still could not get rid of the religious mantle and frame, which is one of the few times to laugh), and perhaps the real art, the magnificent and colorful wonders of nature, through To a certain extent, the processing of Turner's most real emotions may be close to the true meaning of human spirit.
The last place is when the tall and proud capitalist approached Turner's precious painting collection room. , Turner unexpectedly refused, but he was still in reason while shocked. The surprised capitalist returned in anger, but I always stayed in Turner's sentence: I hope my paintings can be seen by everyone, and they are free of. Perhaps this is the answer that Turner finally found for himself in the light and shadow of his whole life: the infinity and liberalization of art. Only in this way can the gap between the elite and high-level art in the museum and the mass culture be bridged, and the true meaning of people, all things in the world and even the universe can be discovered and truly conveyed to the world.
Turner in the movie is not only a "madman" that people tease and ridicule, but also a talented painter sought after by a group of people. Switching between the two identities seemed pointless to Turner, because it all came from someone else. Just like a line in a movie: the meaning of art lies in the evaluation of it by the outside world. Yes, today's art is no longer art itself, but how to evaluate art, and the theory of how to define art seems to be more important than art itself
Is this the "eventually coming" era in Turner's words?
Maybe I can use the young photo studio guy in the movie to answer Turner's answer to "Why are there no colors in the photos?" I can't answer this question now, and it's still an unsolved mystery.
In fact, I hope that contemporary art still takes inheritance as its own responsibility.
"The sun is God"
long may art remain so!
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