Slave Ship?
For those who have seen this already, how does the Slave Ship painting figure into it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoCW80MEGXY
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Ruskin and his dad drop by Turner's studio to view it, Turner tells them the story behind it, Ruskin gets his dad to buy it for him, then there's a later scene in the Ruskin family's drawing-room where he raves about it in Turner's presence and says it proves he's a better painter than Claude Lorrain.
shareThere is a great scene where the son goes on about how beautiful it is and how it perks him up when he passes by it on his way to breakfast but he seems to not take in the horror of the motif at all. There is another interesting scene where Mr Turners meets a man who once worked on slave ships and you can see the pain on his face from those memories.
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No, it is unrelated and I think it happens before the scenes with the painting, perhaps it is suggested that the discussion with the man inspires the painting but I'm not sure.
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Turner is moved by Mr Booth's story at Margate of having captained a slave ship and the effect it had on him.
Ruskin only sees the beauty of the painting and completely misses the point of the cruelty in it. The film is very hard on Ruskin, who was a great defender of Turner.
All that is visible must grow beyond itself...
http://www.cafepress.co.uk/ahua/8761658
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Turner is moved by Mr Booth's story at Margate
Oh no dears the old man's story more likely must be fictional. Well, how we supposed to know what they were talking about in the Booths kitchen, pray? I wouldn't be surprised if Mr Booth wasn't a carpenter on ships for real. It's a movie you know.
What really did influenced Turner to paint his masterpiece The Slave Ship was known then as The Zong Massacre, which happened on 29 November 1781. More than a hundred of slaves were killed on board and ... the rest you may read on Wiki for ex.
The Zong Massacre... had an important influence on the artist J. M. W. Turner, who displayed a painting at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1840 entitled The Slave Ship.
The Zong case was quite a sensational case in Court, the interest in the story arose once again because of the abolition movement and all that, and then in 1830s the slavery came to end, so all that was discussed a lot, and so on... share