Art Weekly: Gormley goes inside the body, and JRR Tolkien the painter

Having trouble viewing this email? Gormley goes inside the body, and JRR Tolkien the painter – the week in art Plus weather-forecaster lamps, an epic art theft, and the shock of the new in Russia – all in your weekly art dispatch Jonathan Jones guardian.co.uk, Friday 30 November 2012 08.20 EST Jump to comments (…) Dolbadarn Castle (1800) by JMW Turner. Click magnifier to englarge Exhibition of the week: Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape In his diploma work for the Royal Academy in 1800, the young London artist JMW Turner painted a Welsh castle among the shadowed and mighty mountains of Snowdonia. His picture Dolbadarn Castle is one of the mighty landscapes in this survey of Britain's greatest contribution to world art – the depiction of nature in the Romantic age – alongside John Constable's 1825 masterpiece The Leaping Horse , and paintings and drawings by other daring artists of the period. For these painters, the rains and winds of wild nature were epic experiences that spoke to the soul. The suggestive colours, ambiguities and painterly richness of their art is a window into the Romantic self. • Royal Academy, London W1J from 8 December until 17 February 2013 Other exhibitions this week Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument This exhibition surveys the story of the celebrated public sculpture series that has brought modern art to Trafalgar Square. • ICA, London SW1, from 5 December until 20 January 2013 Patricia Piccinini Eerily lifelike sculptures that meditate on the mutation of nature in our technocratic age. • Haunch of Venison, London W1S, until 12 January 2013 Ian Hamilton Finlay An expansive display celebrates the late poet, conceptual artist and garden designer. • Tate Britain , London SW1, until 17 February 2013 Harland Miller Paintings based on Penguin book covers revel in literary nostalgia. • Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, until 26 January Masterpiece of the week Buttermere Lake (1798) by JMW Turner. Photograph: Tate JMW Turner, Buttermere Lake, 1798 In this early work, Turner's training as an accurate topographic illustrator is already on the edge of being overwhelmed by his inner fire of Romantic passion. A surging power transforms his observation of nature into a vision of the elements and the maelstrom of existence. • Tate Britain, London SW1 Image of the week Antony Gormley surveys his new work, part of the Model exhibition at the White Cube, London. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian What we learned this week Antony Gormley has created a body you can walk around in JRR Tolkien may have been a better artist than he was writer That a £500,000 artwork by Douglas Gordon has been stolen while in the care of Christie's You can now be the proud owner of a liquid-nitrogen lamp that forecasts the weather in your own home That the Hermitage, in St Petersburg, is opening a contemporary art wing, a controversial move in Putin's Russia The difference between naked and nude in art And the V&A has opened a new furniture gallery And finally ... Share your art about government now Follow us on Twitter Check out our Tumblr Did you know you can get Art on demand from the Guardian? Pick from a range of iconic photos taken by celebrated Guardian photographers and get prints delivered to you You are receiving this email because you are a Art Weekly subscriber. Click here if you do not wish to receive Art Weekly emails from the Guardian News and Media. Click here to find out about other Email Services from the Guardian. Guardian News & Media Limited - a member of Guardian Media Group PLC. Registered Office: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9GU. Registered in England No. 908396

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