An engineer's take on Turner's 'Rain, Steam and Speed' & 'Dutch Boats in a Gale' | National Gallery

Is there engineering in art, as well as art in engineering? We look at Turner's famous depiction of a steam train in 'Rain, Steam and Speed' and stormy seas in 'Dutch Boats in a Gale' (1801). Rob Bell from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers gives us an engineer's take on these two paintings at the National Gallery.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers was founded in 1847 and has over 100,000 members around the world.
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[@eddie_d1233]

Turner's work is magnificent

[@nataliaantonyuk8213]

Thank you very much Mr. Bell for such an insightful talk.

[@christianfrommuslim]

What an excellent interdisciplinary presentation! With such presentation and artistic skills, as well as engineering, Rob must be a right brain/left brain person. He finds commonality, science, and emotion in the grand breadth of Turner's oeuvre.
I too am one of those, seemingly few, with a graduate science degree who appreciates art. To others who like science and art, in literature, I recommend Jules Verne's classic "The Mysterious Island," which I recently read. Although a novel, it is full of the detailed science of everything, literally everything, needed for castaways to create an advanced civilization.
It is intellectually stimulating yet humbling at the same time, because it makes you wonder if you really understood what you thought you had learned. The book's style and content are so different from "Around the World in 80 Days" that it feels like a different author.

[@marcguimaraes]

I hope HE has more videos... 👍🫶🥇

[@philipmurphy2]

Turner's work is magnificent for sure

[@nationalgallery]

We couldn't agree more!

[@juliancoulden1753]

Wonderful presentation! Erudite, informed, knowledgeable, and articulate! Masterful!

[@a-complished4406]

Fantastic ❤

[@purkaitsurajit53]

Thanks for this marvelous new insight into the works of one of the greatest British landscape artists of all time!!👍👍😍😍❤️❤️

[@splodge5714]

I love looking at Turners paintings in the National Gallery and Tate Britain. Such variation but all with passion and energy.

[@andrewwebb4635]

Rain, Steam and Speed is such a wonderful, gloriously inspiring picture even now, 200 years later. I can’t imagine what impact it must have had at that time. I think of Turner as the first abstract painter, decades ahead of the European abstracts. Of course his work was denigrated by many and he was not really a ‘Salon’ artist despite being a full member of the British Academy. He liked to shock with his layer works. We have John Ruskin to thank for publicly supporting his later more controversial artwork.

[@marytumulty4257]

Excellent, enthusiastic presentation.

[@nationalgallery]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@victorianidetch]

Nicely done presentation!

[@jennifer-threedogsinagarde8265]

Great talk with an interesting perspective!

[@Rubens-jc3sp]

art a drama of light and shadow now explained with a eye of an engineer ….. very astonising❤

[@designedbydavid]

This was, simply put, brilliant. Just brilliant.

[@nationalgallery]

Thank you, so glad you enjoyed this video

[@peteannells4218]

Don't panic, we are not drowning. Perspective !

[@elizabethcornwell4156]

Brilliant presentation!

[@georgina3358]

Great presentation, and I love Turner's works

[@LouisHansell]

As you certainly know, Turner's first employer was as a draftsman for an architect - when he was 14 years old!

[@myouatt5987]

A great video - thank you! I enjoyed it!

[@nationalgallery]

Thanks for watching!

[@galimmmm]

Brings me back to the gallery. Love it!

[@Alexmaystudio]

Nicely presented

[@nationalgallery]

Thanks for watching!

[@99thehighstreet69]

They all miss the tiny plough and horses on the right in the train painting

[@savbe2011]

Excelent!

[@luckystarpiano]

❤

[@burtonlee22]

Toot toot

[@michelles9897]

🤍

[@renater.540]

A great presentation in regard to content. But I 'd prefer it WITHOUT the soundtrack. This is an analysis, not a movie.

[@ronaldmarcks1842]

I'm not a fan of Turner's mixture of light source and shadows, which are often inconsistent. He seems to prefer drama over realism.