*Seminar on the English Painter J.M.W. Turner
and Field Trip to Statens Museum for Kunst
*(seminar: (noun). a class at a university or college when a small group of students and a teacher discuss or study a
particular topic (Oxford Advanced Genie)).
Time Schedule
08.20 - 11.00 research work
11.00 - 11.45 sharing your findings with the rest of the class
lunch and transportation to the museum
13.15: outside the museum
13.30: guided tour begins
Method of work:
- group work
Method of sharing your findings with the other groups (all group members participate)
a) - the interview form
or
b) - group conversation/discussion
1. Turner, the man, the painter, (biography)
a) - who, when, where, what, family, wife, life, children, etc.?
b) - painting style, objects, influence, *patron(s), etc.?
*( patron: (noun) a person who gives money and support to artists and writers (Frederick the Great was the patron of
many artists)).
2. Turner’s time , 1750-1850, (history)
What was going on, -in the UK, -in Europe, -the world?
Important events, developments, movements, etc.
3. Contemporary painters (art history)
In UK, Europe, Denmark. In what ways were they similar, did they differ ?.
4. The Romantic Period, with special focus on the attitude of the artists to
Nature (art & cultural history)
Key words of the time, leading figures (art and literature), key events in UK, in Europe, in
Denmark, etc.?
5. Jean Jacques Rousseau (biography and philosophical history)
- the man/his thoughts/his influence?
Sources of information
www.smk.dk (choose English as your language)
- to study press reviews on the exhibition, click on press.
- for general and specific info, click on the large painting and proceed from there.
Google
Google Image Search (to find paintings by Turner and others)
Skoda
For info on Rousseau:
http://www.wabash.edu/Rousseau/
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/r/rousseau.htm
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jun/rousseau.html
http://www.knuten.liu.se/~bjoch509/philosophers/rou.html
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rous.htm
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/rousseau.html
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/rous.htm
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/rousseau.html
You may also use the school library, and other sources you may think of
Individual written work (you may start today or do this task some other day)
Using Google Image Search, find a painting you would like to describe and comment on. Do that
and hand it in on…………………..