Sunrise with Sea Monsters
Sunrise with Sea Monsters ( sunrise with sea monsters ) is a 1,845-painted oil paintings by the English painter William Turner . The picture was created in Turner's late phase and achieves its effect through the colors, while the motifs are almost completely dissolved in abstraction . With this picture Turner takes up one of the fantastic subjects that have accompanied him irregularly through his entire career. The 91.4 × 121.9 cm painting is now owned by the Tate Gallery in London and is currently hanging in the Tate Britain Museum.
The lower part of the picture shows a boggy, dark, probably cold sea . In the upper part there is a yellow-gold sky before a sunrise. The eponymous sea monsters lurk in the middle. These can hardly be recognized as a body, but as dissolving particles, more movement than body. The color scheme gives the whole picture the impression of flowing and movement, which has already been established through the choice of title and motif.
The picture title directs the viewing of the picture . When looking for the sea monsters, the viewer recognizes two eyes. Other motifs in this area could show two mouths, or a fish head in half profile. But it is also possible to interpret the dissolving motif as two eyes to one mouth, just as it can also be a pure wave formation.
The picture was taken in the English coastal town of Margate .
Remarks
- ^ Gunnar Schmidt: Anamorphic bodies. Medical images of humans in the 19th century. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2001, ISBN 3-412-07701-1 , p. 151.
- ↑ Monika Schmitz-Emans: Sea Depths and Soul Depths. Literary reflections of inner and outer strangers (= Saarbrücker Contributions to Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. Vol. 22). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2393-5 , p. 139.