Dimensions: support: 371 x 537 mm
Copyright: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have John Robert Cozens' watercolor, "The Gulf of Salerno." The soft colors and hazy light give it such a dreamlike quality, almost as if it's a memory. What catches your eye most in this piece? Curator: Isn't it lovely? For me, it's the way Cozens captures that feeling of being utterly dwarfed by nature. The mountain looms, the sea stretches out... and yet, there's this quiet, contemplative mood. Makes you wonder what Cozens was feeling as he painted this scene, doesn’t it? Maybe a bit awestruck himself? Editor: Definitely. It makes me want to go there and just... breathe it all in. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Curator: My pleasure! Always a joy to wander through a landscape like this, even just in our minds.
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During his visit to Italy with William Beckford in 1782, Cozens spent some time sketching on the south-west coast in and around Naples. Among the most spectacular of the finished watercolours to have emerged from this time is this view of the gulf of Salerno. Typically, Cozens employs a limited palette of muted grey-green and blue, shot through by the shaft of sunlight which breaks through the clouded sky. It is in such watercolours that Cozens demonstrated his desire to express the ‘sublime’; an aesthetic movement of this time which aimed to produce an emotional response to the power and grandeur of nature. Gallery label, April 2007
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