J. M. W Turner Slave Ship Analysis

Out of the choices I had to choose from for my analysis. I chose the painting, “Slave Ship” by Joseph Turner, due to the chaos I see in the painting. Not only is the event being portrayed very chaotic, but the painting itself is full of turmoil as well. The painting has vigorous brush strokes and the colors seem to melt together in areas leaving the sky and the sea hard to distinguish in the middle portion of the painting. The artist also uses bright and dark colors allowing the creation of pandemonium that I feel when I see this work. You can see the beginning of a storm in the left of the painting along with a boat heading into the rougher waters caused by the weather, resulting in the bow to be propelled

I think the artist is able to communicate the bad condition of the ship and its crew is in. The mood of the work is scary and gloomy. The design and intensity of the waves, the changing weather, and the ships in the ocean seem to make the scene come alive. It really conveys a since of naturalism in the painting the way it depicts the environment around the ship.

Turner is identified as being a Romantic who desired to depict fictional in addition to nonfictional artwork. The Slave Ship was not a straightforward portrait to create a ship at sea, but nevertheless, the approach as well as the time that immortalized a perception in the historical past that encapsulates man 's commitment of inhumanity. The Slave Ship signifies a spot in time in our past where a captain made the decision to hurl overboard slaves which had been dead in addition to dying to claim that the shipmates were lost while at sea. Turner established a portrait that is not basically spectacular but in

Chapter 1 of “Slavery at Sea” shed a perspective I was never taught before, and that floored me since I identify as a Black person. The more I read the chapter, I kept questioning how knowledgeable I actually was on the Middle Passage and resented my teachers (most of them black themselves) on how condensed and male-centered this was taught to me.

It must have been 13 years or so since I have been to the art museum, back in elementary school, on a one of a kind field trip. 13 years is way too long to have been away from the art museum, as my experience this year reminded me that. It was a beautiful, sunny October day, although it felt like July, and it was an even better day to talk a walk through the vast, mesmerizing pieces of art that the museum has to offer. The North Carolina Museum of Art provides an abundance of artwork from various time periods, cultures, and one can find art anywhere from Egyptian, to classical, to modern and contemporary art. The artwork that the museum provides not only displays an abundance of artwork, but

I chose to study and analyze J.M.W. Turner’s Slave Ship for this project and found it to be very interesting. Immediately while looking at the piece you get a strong sense of emotion and drama that is being portrayed. There is a lot of depth and warmth in the colors that are used and wide swift brush strokes to create the images. The first image that caught my eye was of waves crashing on the left side of the painting. The white tips of the waves are very noticeable against the softer shades of the ocean. Behind the waves is a ship which is the next part of the painting that drew my attention. The ship seems to be caught in the rough waves of the sea and barely able to keep afloat. There is a glimmer of light from the sun peeking through

(213). The narrator once again speaks of the sea as if it were human. Stating the “waves paced to and fro” and “the great sea’s voice”, he gives the sea life and a voice. Having figures of speech such as these gives the story life and a vivid

Unlike the slave at the time if you found yourself on a slave boat and was a captain, you would have the best and somewhat safest job on the ship. The captain is described in document B, in a collection of Voyages and Travels by Thomas Phillips. The captain must have a reasonable live sections on the ship if the boat is a “Royal African Company” (Doc. B) ship. Since that captain need to be organized and neat to map and navigate were he is going he would also need a large clean space for that as well. In this passage the captain describes himself taking care of the ship and cleaning the floors, which would have been the crew work to do. He tries to stay away from saying that his place is large, but you can infer that from the

Before I used to think that slavery was just about the physical pain and abuse it was until I read this amazing piece of art work that I understood slave were human just like me and you that they had feeling too, that some of them will choose to commit suicide then to be alive with no pride and be treated like horses. Hers a quote of Douglass where he shows how weak minded he felt when all hopes seem to be gone “I was sometimes prompted to take my life”

Prior to my research on Winslow Homer, I had no knowledge of who he was as an artist. After reading about Homer and his life, I learned that he was one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century and had a big impact on the art world. I chose to do my paper on Winslow Homer because I saw a few of his paintings of boats floating in the ocean and was blown away by the strokes he produced. I expected him to be a rural European artist that mainly did landscapes, and while there is some truth behind my assumption, I learned a lot about him that I didn’t expect.

I did not know what was going to happen when I boarded the large ship. I knew it was not good for I was a captive to these white people. My imagination did not even come close to how wretched a state we were all going to be a part of for the next sixty days.

My favorite part of the painting could possibly be a fluke. The canvas is textured using the technique called impasto. The interesting part of the canvas is where there are distinct lines running through the painting. These lines are predominately on the people in the painting and especially on the shirtless man that is unable to walk without help. I feel that these raised lines signify the whippings that the slaves received. Seeing these raised lines on the shirtless man, who was also injured, hurt my stomach. It was a compelling piece to the story. I would be very interest to know if these raised lines were supposed to be part of the story or if they were from the painting

Today, we admire especially subsequent images, painted only for himself, where Turner went further. When for the first time it is shown, functioning as work unfinished or even sketches. Their story, however, is the opposite: it's not about projects, but bolder version topics that Turner previously presented in conventional

This oil painting is a moonlight scene and known as an “original mind” by contemporary critics. The strong power of nature is the main theme that brings greatness or sublime that inspires our thoughts. The moonlight’s contrast is delicate to the flickering lantern on the boat. This emphasizes nature’s power over humans and the fishermen’s fate. After Fishermen at Sea, in 1799, he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy at 24 years old; this being the youngest age a person can be elected. In 1802, Turner had the dignity of signing a collection of large pictures, resulting him to become an academician. Shortly after, he opened a private gallery to show his latest work. Turner’s gallery was extremely successful that resulted an obvious statement that his career of art was assured. As he was traveling to search new ideas for art work in Wales, Yorkshire, the Midlands, Scotland, and the European continent; he crossed the dangerous ocean to Calasis. In his picture, Calais Pier (1802-03), he left an obvious sense of danger before his arrival. During his tour of France and Switzerland, he completed more than 400 drawings of scenes that impressed him. In 1807, Turner began publishing the Liber Studiorum or can be translated as the “Book of Studies” is a series of his landscapes and seascape paintings published as prints. This time for Turner has been described as, “The pith of all that is best in his life and

When looking at the painting you see men on the boat lifeless, doubtful, mourning, hopefully, and courageously. The men to the furthest end of the raft are trying to wave down a ship in the far distance with fabric from their clothing in their hands. There is motion in the painting as well with men looking to be reaching up in the air for help, the wind blowing, and waves slashing. It is almost as if you were there with them or watching it happen. The colors used to give this painting a dark and shadowy feel, shown on their bodies.