J.M.W. Turner
Sun setting over a Lake
ca. 1835-1845
oil on canvas
89 x 122 cm
Tate Gallery London
About my adoration for J.M.W. Turner…
'...Turner’s light is more dramatic, recording unique moments of sometimes
cataclysmic power beyond man’s control or understanding whereas Beaumont’s, no
less beautiful, has a human scale of deep melancholy which speaks of fortitude
rather than awe, stoicism rather than impotence, above all silence rather than
tumult. A silence that awaits a voice, the viewer waiting for vision to clear.
Beaumont’s sun is caught not in smoke or tempest but in the fragments of frozen
water or puddles in broken, saturated earth, captive in reflection only.
Beaumont holds time still, more poignantly to record its passing. The long
moments just before a dawn. The contradiction between eager anticipation and
imminent regret.'
Michael Keenan & Keran James, London 2016
Yves Beaumont (BE)
After the storm (seascape)
2012
oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm
private collection
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