{"identifier":"ILL-EYTurn_6312197892112","browse_author":"Illuminations TV Ltd (Producer) and Illuminations TV Ltd (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_visartssch"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350912700,"description":"William Turnbull is one of Britain\u2019s most distinguished sculptors and painters. In the late 1940s he studied art in London and then spent time in Paris, and ever since he has rigorously explored a limited number of archetypal forms as well as the fundamentals of art\u2019s languages. Over more than fifty years William Turnbull has returned again and again to the head and the mask, to the standing figure and the horse, as well as to possibilities of pared-down, often monochromatic painting. His simple objects, which draw on both primitive and classical ideas, often combine presence and poetry in unique ways. This rare interview with the artist was filmed alongside an extensive retrospective exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2005. Works in bronze, wood and stone as well as (from a period in the 1960s) in brightly-coloured steel are seen at their very best in both light-drenched interiors and in the park\u2019s sweeping landscapes. William Turnbull was a Scottish artist. After the end of the war, Turnbull enrolled at The Slade School of Fine Art in London in the painting department, but he found the limited view of art and the narrow approach to technical matters not to his Liking. At the time The Slade championed a nostalgic and naturalistic neo-Romanticism and was suspicious of the European Impressionist and post-Impressionist that Turnbull had come to regard as valid and direct. Being older and more experienced than the rest of the students, he was not impressed or overawed by his tutors and did not change his opinions. He became disillusioned with the painting course and transferred to the sculpture department. It was in the sculpture department that he met Eduardo Paolozzi and Nigel Henderson, who shared his interest in contemporary continental modernist art. As he became increasingly disillusioned by the attitudes at The Slade, he relocated to Paris in 1948. Language - English","videoId":6312197892112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_visartssch","title":"William Turnbull","xml_source":"bvl_visartssch_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"ILL-EYTurn","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/0881ddc4-59d2-400a-b4a5-c435ca03ae2c/b3971f95-d325-4091-8ef1-2e67d60e157e/1280x720/match/image.jpg","series_id":"series_theEYE","facets":"appliedArt , Applied art , fineArt , Fine art , sculpture , Sculpture , art , Art , schoolsMovementsAndStyles , Schools, movements and styles , artsAndLiterature , Arts and literature , _20002009 , 2000\u20132009 , _2000Present , 2000\u2013present , made_20002009 , 2000\u20132009 , made_2000Present , 2000\u2013present , english , English , england , England , europe , Europe , unitedKingdom , United Kingdom , origin_europe , Europe , origin_unitedKingdom , United Kingdom , video , Video ,","contenttypeorder":3,"series":"theEYE","date_of_publication":2005,"publisher":"Illuminations TV Ltd Illuminations TV Ltd","productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"ILL-EYTurn","facet":["_20002009","_2000Present","appliedArt","art","artsAndLiterature","england","english","europe","fineArt","made_20002009","made_2000Present","origin_europe","origin_unitedKingdom","schoolsMovementsAndStyles","sculpture","unitedKingdom","video"],"contentType":"video","authors":"Illuminations TV Ltd~Illuminations TV Ltd"}