Graphite and watercolour on paper
II. Various Perspective Diagrams
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
II. Various Perspective Diagrams
Perspective lectures c.1809-28
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Lecture Diagram Colour Circle No1
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
abstraction
colour
colour theory
diagrammatic
education, science and learning
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
geometric
Harris, Moses, ‘Natural System of Colours’
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
non-representational
society
<p>Turner created only two diagrams dealing with colour theory. He used them in a lecture on atmospheric perspective: the use of colour, light and shade to lend a picture a sense of depth.</p><p>This diagram illustrates the behaviour of colour in light. Turner used it to address colour symbolism of the times of day, explaining that the upper and lower portions of the diagram represent the light and dark of day and night. He told his students ‘suppose the yellow triangle light, red and blue shade; and hence we have grey morning, the yellow midday and crimson evening’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
3 November 2003 – 23 February 2004
2004-02-23
3 November 2003 – 23 February 2004
2004-02-23
2003-11-03
Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France)
2003-11-03
The Origins of Abstraction
Loan-out
31 May 2004 – 8 November 2004
2004-11-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-05-31
Vanishing Point: The Perspective Drawings of J.M.W Turner
Collection based display
2 February 2013 – 6 May 2013
2013-05-06
2 February 2013 – 6 May 2013
2013-05-06
2013-02-02
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2013-02-02
Rosa Barba: The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple
Loan-out
1 May 2016 – 8 January 2017
2017-01-08
4 May 2016 – 18 September 2016
2016-09-18
2016-05-04
Caumont Art Centre (Aix-en-Provence, France)
7 October 2016 – 8 January 2017
2017-01-08
2016-10-07
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2016-05-01
JMW Turner: From Shade and Darkness, to Light and Colour
Loan-out
28 February 2025 – 8 June 2025
2025-06-08
1 March 2025 – 30 June 2025
2025-06-30
2025-03-01
Fundación Juan March (Madrid, Spain)
http://www.march.es
2025-02-28
IN THE NAME OF COLOUR
Loan-out
Lecture Diagram: Colour Circle No.1
support: 556 × 762 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<span class="text0">Turner created only two diagrams dealing with colour      theory. He used them in a lecture on atmospheric <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/perspective" title="Glossary definition for 'Perspective'"><span>perspective</span></a>: the use of      colour, light and shade to lend a picture a sense of depth. </span>
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<span class="text0">This diagram illustrates the behaviour of colour in      light. Turner used it to address colour symbolism of the times of day,      explaining that the upper and lower portions of the diagram represent the      light and dark of day and night. He told his students ‘suppose the      yellow triangle light, red and blue shade; and hence we have grey morning,      the yellow midday and crimson evening’. </span>
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abstraction colour colour theory diagrammatic education, science and learning emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities geometric Harris, Moses, ‘Natural System of Colours’ literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) non-representational society
CXCV 178