🌄✨ London | Tate Britain: Sunset Views with Turner & Rothko ✨🌄

During my tutorial, when we discussed spirituality and art, as well as James Turrell’s optical works, my academic mentor recommended I check out the Turner and Rothko exhibitions at Tate Britain to see how they express emotion through light and color. 🎨✨ Interestingly, the curators have juxtaposed Turner’s works with contemporary art to highlight his lasting influence. 🖼️🔍 Turner & Rothko Turner is famous for his landscapes and mastery of light, creating a sense of motion and uncertainty in his works. 🌊🌫️ Pieces like Rain, Steam and Speed (1844) and The Slave Ship (1840) use vibrant golds, oranges, and blues to evoke a visual experience that transcends the literal. 🎨💥 Turner’s later works became increasingly abstract, with light and color taking center stage, their boundaries blurred as if swallowed by mist and storms. 🌪️✨ Rothko, on the other hand, represents a completely different approach to light and color. Rothko’s works don’t depict natural light like Turner’s but aim to create a “spiritual light”—an immersive atmosphere for the viewer. 🧘‍♂️💡 His color blocks have soft edges, layered with a meditative quality. 🟥🟦 He donated his works to Tate to be displayed alongside Turner’s, paying homage to Turner’s influence. 🙌🎨 Paul Pfeiffer & J.M.W. Turner Though separated by nearly two centuries, both artists explore our understanding of the natural world during times of technological change. 🌍🔬 This exhibition pairs Paul Pfeiffer’s video installation Morning After the Deluge with Turner’s painting of the same name that inspired it. 🎥🖼️ This is the first time the two works have been exhibited together. Both Turner and Pfeiffer challenge the viewer’s perspective—both literally and symbolically. 👀🤔 They evoke the Romantic concept of the “sublime”—a term popular in 18th-century Europe describing the mix of awe and fear when faced with vast, overwhelming forces. 🌋⚡ This idea applies not only to nature’s grandeur but also to the power of technology and human-made machines. 🚂🌌 #LondonExhibitions #ModernismWalk #ModernistArchitecture #Turner #TateBritain