90 minutes (60 min film and 30 min extras)
2006
R0 (PAL), SD mp4
5060033833193

Turner at Tate

The artist J.M.W. Turner is widely recognised as England’s greatest painter. Tate has the world’s finest and most extensive collection of his work. Turner at Tate explores Turner’s art through many of his best-known canvases and exquisite sketches and watercolours, all newly and exceptionally filmed in HD from the original artworks.

Incorporating the landscapes and places that inspired the works, the film provides an overview of Turner’s life and – in an accessible and engrossing way – of critical approaches to his art. The film’s focus is Turner and England, and his work is considered against the radical social and political changes of the early nineteenth century. Turner at Tate is a film about ideas and history and landscape, a film about colour and light.

Contributors include Tate curators Ian Warrell and David Blayney Brown, and art historians Sam Smiles and Barry Venning. Also featured are ten additional short films, each of which considers in detail a major work.