The pure, vibrant yellow of Turners sunsets also appears in Monets San Giorgio Maggiore by Twilight (1908) or in Cy Twomblys Part II: Es-tate from the Four Seasons cycle Quattro Stagioni (A Painting in Four Parts) (1993-1995) and, even more vehemently, in Untitled (Sunset), two works on paper of 1986. The vivid and ex-pressive brushwork that characterises Cy Twomblys Hero and Leandro (1981-1984) also gives immediacy to the rough, choppy waters of the English Channel in Monets The Sea at Fécamp (1881) and the crashing waves in Turners Wreckers, Coast of Northumberland (1834). ![]() But they are also confronted with provocative contrasts, for example in form of the juxtaposition of Cy Twomblys five-metre canvas from the ∻looming series with Monets water lilies from the Beyeler Foundation an abstract red composition on a bright yellow ground set against Monets subtly atmospheric colour harmonies.Īlthough the three painters belong to entirely different eras, their works share cer-tain formal qualities, among them the use of expressive colour, the dissolution of form, gestural brushwork and a sustained interest in atmosphere. Viewers can enjoy fairly harmonious sections, such as the √tmosphere opening sequence, which is characterised by colouristic restraint and an astonishing similarity in the way all three artists handle colour effects. They deal with death and the transience of life, with the changes wrought by the passage of time and with nature as a place of both tranquillity and mortal danger.Ĭonceived around the idea of a dialogue between individual works by the three artists, the exhibition does not seek to recount the history of abstraction to which Turner, Monet and Twombly contributed significant chapters but to highlight formal and motivic correspondences between paintings and within groups of works. Carefully judged juxtapositions bring out a multitude of correspondences between Turner, Monet and Twombly: not only in the way they experiment with colour, pushing the boundaries of painting and breaking with traditions in ways that were not always comprehensible to their contemporaries, but also in their choice of motifs and subject matter. A spacious hang allows the richly coloured canvases and works on paper to interact with each other in unexpected and fascinating ways. ![]() ![]() Focusing on their late work, it presents a selection of some seventy paintings, among them twenty by Monet alone. The exhibition now in Stuttgart is the first to bring the three artists together. STUTTGART.- William Turner (1775-1851), Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Cy Twombly (1928-2011) are among the most outstanding artists of the past 200 years.
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