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RE: [ART] John Martin's Sublime Landscapes 🎨
Wow - they really must be something to stand in front of! The resonance is strong enough viewing them like this, never mind at that size in the flesh... I tend to avoid London like the plague (if you'll pardon the pun!) but if I'm ever there again, I would love to see them in the Tate. Thank you for the extra information, @steemswede <3
I hear you :) Not a fan of big and bustling cities either. I've unfortunately only seen one of his paintings live, the "Macbeth" painting in Nat Gallery in Edinburgh. I wish some museum in Europe would put together an exhibition with his whole oeuvre.
Wow, I just checked that one out and it's pretty damned epic! And your question makes me wonder how on earth they do transport such massive and delicate pieces when they move them for exhibitions... I fuss enough over my comparatively tiny canvases (e.g. 18 x 24"/40 x 60")... I can't imagine being the guy responsible for shipping something that huge and virtually priceless...
I'm actually not sure how they do it, but when I shipped my own paintings (about 120x180 cm) from Sweden to a Canadian buyer, I rolled them and put them in hard cardboard tubes. I highly doubt they roll old museum pieces like these though!