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ArtJune 2012 Exhibition notice On "Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude” at The National Gallery, London. In this exhibition the strong link between Claude Gellée dit le Lorrain and J. M. W. Turner is emphasized by placing particular paintings by each of them from a variety of galleries and collections alongside one another to illustrate the former’s influence on the latter. The impact of Claude’s pioneering seventeenth-century French landscape paintings on Turner lasted for the whole of the great English painter’s career. Turner always wanted to pay homage to Claude, to evoke Claude, and indeed to surpass Claude. In particular he was inspired by Claude’s innovative treatment of the effects of light on landscape. In his will, Turner left a large collection of his own paintings to the National Gallery, where this exhibition is held, on the strict condition that they be hung alongside works by Claude. It was both an expression of Turner’s intense admiration for the French artist and a way of ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 30 June 2012, on page 53 Copyright © 2013 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Exhibition-notice-7407
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