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Joseph Mallord William Turner
English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851 Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 ?C 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Turner's talent was recognised early in his life. Financial independence allowed Turner to innovate freely; his mature work is characterised by a chromatic palette and broadly applied atmospheric washes of paint. According to David Piper's The Illustrated History of Art, his later pictures were called "fantastic puzzles." However, Turner was still recognised as an artistic genius: the influential English art critic John Ruskin described Turner as the artist who could most "stirringly and truthfully measure the moods of Nature." (Piper 321) Suitable vehicles for Turner's imagination were to be found in the subjects of shipwrecks, fires (such as the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner rushed to witness first-hand, and which he transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches), natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog. He was fascinated by the violent power of the sea, as seen in Dawn after the Wreck (1840) and The Slave Ship (1840). Turner placed human beings in many of his paintings to indicate his affection for humanity on the one hand (note the frequent scenes of people drinking and merry-making or working in the foreground), but its vulnerability and vulgarity amid the 'sublime' nature of the world on the other hand. 'Sublime' here means awe-inspiring, savage grandeur, a natural world unmastered by man, evidence of the power of God - a theme that artists and poets were exploring in this period. The significance of light was to Turner the emanation of God's spirit and this was why he refined the subject matter of his later paintings by leaving out solid objects and detail, concentrating on the play of light on water, the radiance of skies and fires. Although these late paintings appear to be 'impressionistic' and therefore a forerunner of the French school, Turner was striving for expression of spirituality in the world, rather than responding primarily to optical phenomena. Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway painted (1844).His early works, such as Tintern Abbey (1795), stayed true to the traditions of English landscape. However, in Hannibal Crossing the Alps (1812), an emphasis on the destructive power of nature had already come into play. His distinctive style of painting, in which he used watercolour technique with oil paints, created lightness, fluency, and ephemeral atmospheric effects. (Piper 321) One popular story about Turner, though it likely has little basis in reality, states that he even had himself "tied to the mast of a ship in order to experience the drama" of the elements during a storm at sea. In his later years he used oils ever more transparently, and turned to an evocation of almost pure light by use of shimmering colour. A prime example of his mature style can be seen in Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, where the objects are barely recognizable. The intensity of hue and interest in evanescent light not only placed Turner's work in the vanguard of English painting, but later exerted an influence upon art in France, as well; the Impressionists, particularly Claude Monet, carefully studied his techniques.

 

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Church oil painting

Painting ID::  55018

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Church
mk239 1908 Oil on canvas 71x96cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Street oil painting

Painting ID::  55019

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Street
mk239 1908 Oil on canvas 33x41cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Centre market oil painting

Painting ID::  55020

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Centre market
mk239 1908 Oil on canvas 33x41cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Church oil painting

Painting ID::  55021

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Study of Church
mk239 1908-1909
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountain oil painting

Painting ID::  55022

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Mountain
mk239 1909 Oil on canvas
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study oil painting

Painting ID::  55023

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Study
mk239 1909 Oil on canvas
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sword oil painting

Painting ID::  55024

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Sword
mk239 1909 Oil on canvas 125x73cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Africa oil painting

Painting ID::  55025

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Africa
mk239 107x95.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Train oil painting

Painting ID::  55026

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Train
mk239 1909 Oil on canvas 36x49cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner The view with stock oil painting

Painting ID::  55027

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
The view with stock
mk239 1909 Oil on canvas 72.3x97.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Skirt oil painting

Painting ID::  55028

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Skirt
mk239 1909 Oil on canvas 95x128.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Matter oil painting

Painting ID::  55029

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Matter
mk239 1909 Oil on canvas 97x131cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of church oil painting

Painting ID::  55030

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Study of church
mk239 1910 Oil on canvas 32x44cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Part oil painting

Painting ID::  55031

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Part
mk239 1909 Oil on canvas 95.2x150.1cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Forthright oil painting

Painting ID::  55032

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Forthright
mk239 1909 Oil on canvas 32.9x44.6cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Artist 198 oil painting

Painting ID::  55033

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Artist 198
mk239 1914 oil on canvas 16.5x92.1cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Draw oil painting

Painting ID::  55034

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Draw
mk239 1909 Oil on canvas 175.2x144.7cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape oil painting

Painting ID::  55035

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Landscape
mk239 1912 Oil on canvas 77.8x100cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Naked portrait oil painting

Painting ID::  55036

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Naked portrait
mk239 1910-1911 Watercolour 33.1x33cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of Constructure oil painting

Painting ID::  55037

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Part of Constructure
mk239 1910 Oil on canvas 58x48cm
   
   
     

 

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851 Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 ?C 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Turner's talent was recognised early in his life. Financial independence allowed Turner to innovate freely; his mature work is characterised by a chromatic palette and broadly applied atmospheric washes of paint. According to David Piper's The Illustrated History of Art, his later pictures were called "fantastic puzzles." However, Turner was still recognised as an artistic genius: the influential English art critic John Ruskin described Turner as the artist who could most "stirringly and truthfully measure the moods of Nature." (Piper 321) Suitable vehicles for Turner's imagination were to be found in the subjects of shipwrecks, fires (such as the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner rushed to witness first-hand, and which he transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches), natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog. He was fascinated by the violent power of the sea, as seen in Dawn after the Wreck (1840) and The Slave Ship (1840). Turner placed human beings in many of his paintings to indicate his affection for humanity on the one hand (note the frequent scenes of people drinking and merry-making or working in the foreground), but its vulnerability and vulgarity amid the 'sublime' nature of the world on the other hand. 'Sublime' here means awe-inspiring, savage grandeur, a natural world unmastered by man, evidence of the power of God - a theme that artists and poets were exploring in this period. The significance of light was to Turner the emanation of God's spirit and this was why he refined the subject matter of his later paintings by leaving out solid objects and detail, concentrating on the play of light on water, the radiance of skies and fires. Although these late paintings appear to be 'impressionistic' and therefore a forerunner of the French school, Turner was striving for expression of spirituality in the world, rather than responding primarily to optical phenomena. Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway painted (1844).His early works, such as Tintern Abbey (1795), stayed true to the traditions of English landscape. However, in Hannibal Crossing the Alps (1812), an emphasis on the destructive power of nature had already come into play. His distinctive style of painting, in which he used watercolour technique with oil paints, created lightness, fluency, and ephemeral atmospheric effects. (Piper 321) One popular story about Turner, though it likely has little basis in reality, states that he even had himself "tied to the mast of a ship in order to experience the drama" of the elements during a storm at sea. In his later years he used oils ever more transparently, and turned to an evocation of almost pure light by use of shimmering colour. A prime example of his mature style can be seen in Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, where the objects are barely recognizable. The intensity of hue and interest in evanescent light not only placed Turner's work in the vanguard of English painting, but later exerted an influence upon art in France, as well; the Impressionists, particularly Claude Monet, carefully studied his techniques.