View from the Trocadero

View From The Trocadero, watercolor, 7x5" (17x12cm.) painted "alla prima",(in one sitting) and "plein aire" right there in the gardens overlooking the Eiffel Tower, in the Spring 2009. It was fun! View from the Trocadero, acuarela pintada "alla prima" (de una sola vez), y en "plein aire" alli mismo en los jardines que dan sobre la Torre Eiffel, en la primavera del 2009.

Going back to William Turner: his sketchbooks, now at the British Museum, tell us about his character. He was very methodical. At the start of the 19th C. London was as much an attraction for artists as Paris would be 100 years later. Fashion dictated that the landscape painters should seek in nature not truth but drama. Turner's favorite emotion was exaltation, and his favorite word was "sublime". Essentially, Turner tried to elevate the status of landscape painting to place it on a plane with the grandeur of noble poetry. Volviendo a William Turner: sus cuadernos, que ahora estan en el Museo Britanico, nos dicen de su personalidad. Era muy metodico. Al principio del siglo XIX, London era tanta atraccion para los artistas, como lo fue Paris 100 anos mas tarde. La moda dictaba que los pintores de paisajes debian buscar en la naturaleza no la verdad, sino el drama. La emocion favorita de Turner era la exaltacion, y su palabra favorita era "sublime". Esencialmente, Turner trato de elevar el estatus de la pintura de paisaje al mismo plano que la grandiosidad de una noble poesia.