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1:
Turner's Legacy
2: From Realism to the 'Impression'
3: Whistler's 'Nocturnes'
4: Painting in Series
5: Turner and the Thames
6: Return to the Thames
7: Venice
Room 4: Painting in Series
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Room 4: Painting in Series
Tate Photography
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On one wall of this room is a series of paintings of the Seine that
Monet produced in the 1890s. They focus on light effects at different
times of the morning, emphasising transient aspects of nature.
Modulated by the effects of mist and light, the reflections
in the river blur the line between imagination and reality. These
concerns are mirrored in the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, whom Monet
had introduced to Whistler, realising that his views on art complemented
theirs. Mallarmé offered to translate Whistler's 'Ten O'Clock' lecture,
and the three became close friends and supporters of each other's
work.
On the opposite wall is a group of watercolour studies
which Turner painted in Switzerland, possibly during one or two
painting sessions. Turner often produced watercolours in a kind
of production line, applying a particular colour to several images
one after the other, so that the paint on the first was dry when
he came back to it with a new colour. Though they constitute a series
in a different sense, they provided an important prototype for Monet's
work.
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