I Just wish i could describe my feeling from my experience of sailing
aboard a medium size landing barge, at the end of WW2, from
Zamboanga to Inchon Korea during a typhoon in the China Sea in 45'.
Words are difficult for me, as avery one knows.
mando
On Nov 9, 2008, at 12:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/9/08 2:15:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I agree re Ruskin. But did he write that after seeing Turner?
Yes. Did he
really have such experiences of the sea before he saw Turner?
I share your suspicions. I'm not a Ruskin scholar, and I'm
unlikely to
become
one because I recoil from the personality to the extent it is
displayed in
the potted biographies I've read, and the priggish and smugly self-
righteous
quotes he is famous for. Granting my shallow knowledge of his
itineraries, the
only times I can discover when he went to sea were simply to cross
the channel
to the continent.
He obviously would have us believe he personally had endured nearly
the worst
a tumultuous ocean has to offer. For example, he writes of "the low
rain
clouds brought down to the very level of the sea, whirling and
flying in rags
and
fragments from wave to wave, AS I HAVE OFTEN SEEN THEM." He
implies he could
"appreciate" Turner because he's one of the "few people who have
ever seen the
effect". But when the hell did that ever actually happen? It's
silly to
suggest that only a few people ever crossed the channel.
Perversely, if indeed he did fake it, and the only heavings of the
sea he
ever saw were on a Turner canvas, it is much to the credit of his
hyperesthesic
sensibility and his preternatural articulateness that he could
write such
stuff
as that in MODERN PAINTERS.
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