Explore the spirit of camaraderie and competition between Turner (Timothy Spall) and his fellow artists before the opening of the annual exhibition at the Royal Academy. They called it "Varnishing Day," and Turner enjoyed completing unfinished paintings and tweaking his rivals (watch the clip below). Production Designer Suzie Davies: "Mike told me relatively early during prep that he'd like to recreate a 'Varnishing Day' at the Summer exhibition at the Royal Academy. So I immediately spoke with our art historian Jackie Riding and I think I realized then what a challenge it would be: 300+ paintings, a vast double height set with angled walls, corridors and staircases, as big a composite set I could provide in the time for the money ! So Henry Woolley, our fantastic location manager, set about trying to find a large enough ballroom to build the set it, and he found a gem up in Yorkshire.
- 2/13/2015
- by Bill Desowitz
- Thompson on Hollywood
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