"I'm now an insignificant person"

Bernadette 2022-03-19 09:01:10

Turner is an admittedly smart guy.
People want to be smart because smart people can pretend to be stupid, but not smart people can never pretend to be smart.

He knew too well what the world was doing to survive.
drawing skills? Don't make trouble. How many painters are there in the government who are waiting to sell their paintings to survive?
personality? In that era when the British economy was booming, there was no shortage of painters full of artistic bacteria.
Flattering? He's pretty good at it.
Until the arrival of the official criticism.

He was like a disfavored concubine, watching himself become a laughing stock.

Perhaps artists of any period have a mentality of giving up on others.
A new era must be created by oneself. Artists must have a sense of mission of the times and a sense of responsibility like the protagonist.
But how tired he was.

Any biography of Turner says that he fought against the authorities in his final days as rebellion.
I don't think so.
He just wanted to paint what he loved, steam, clouds, storms.
He just wanted to sing the praises of nature, and he was even willing to devote himself completely to the great nature.

He also went back sadly amid the laughter of the crowd.
Go home, even if the world rejects his devotion altogether.

But ah, the feeling of being abandoned by the world is too strong.
He said, how beautiful, how lonely it is.
As much as you give, you want as much in return. Is it wrong?

At the end of his life, he summed up his life by--"I'm already an insignificant person."
No, dear sir.
You don't know how much people in the new century love your work.
We have never seen such a landscape, we have never imagined such a depiction of nature.
We know the pain of not being appreciated, but don't deny it all, okay?

Your paintings are now neatly placed in the British Museum in London. All the art lovers in the world line up to admire your work as if you were alive.

The trajectory of your life has long been recorded in thousands of art books.
Replicas of all your masterpieces have long been hung on the walls of thousands of people.

That's enough, dear Mr.Turner, a gentleman who reminds me of
a smile and then tears.

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Mr. Turner quotes

  • J.M.W. Turner: Mr. Ruskin, can I pose you a somewhat "conundruous" question?

    John Ruskin: Please do, Mr. Turner.

    J.M.W. Turner: To which do you find yourself the more partial: a steak and kidney pie or veal and ham pie?

    [crowd laughs]

  • J.M.W. Turner: Flanders, still as flat as a witch's tit.