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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 Keynote line oil painting

Painting ID::  55199

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Keynote line
mk239 1936 129.4x194.2cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner White line oil painting

Painting ID::  55200

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
White line
mk239 1936 49.9x38.7cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner movement oil painting

Painting ID::  55201

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
movement
mk239 1937 116x89cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Purple with orange oil painting

Painting ID::  55202

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Purple with orange
mk239 1935 Oil paiting 88.9x116.2cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Fifteen oil painting

Painting ID::  55203

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Fifteen
mk239 1938 34.5x50cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mistiness oil painting

Painting ID::  55204

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Mistiness
mk239 1939 Oil on canvas 100x81cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Note oil painting

Painting ID::  55205

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Note
mk239 1939 31.6x48.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Circle oil painting

Painting ID::  55206

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Circle
mk239 1939 92x72cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Centre oil painting

Painting ID::  55207

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Centre
mk239 1939 49x31cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner No title oil painting

Painting ID::  55208

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
No title
mk239 1940 49x31.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Balance oil painting

Painting ID::  55209

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Balance
mk239 1942 89x116cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sky oil painting

Painting ID::  55210

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Sky
mk239 1940 Oil on canvas 100x73cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Harmonic oil painting

Painting ID::  55211

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Harmonic
mk239 1942 114x146cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study oil painting

Painting ID::  55212

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Study
mk239 1914 31.8x49.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner No title oil painting

Painting ID::  55213

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
No title
mk239 1941 Oil painting
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner No title oil painting

Painting ID::  55214

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
No title
mk239 1941 31x48cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Assemble oil painting

Painting ID::  55217

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Assemble
mk239 1940 Oil painting 81x116cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner No title oil painting

Painting ID::  55216

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
No title
mk239 1941 33x51cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner No title oil painting

Painting ID::  55218

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
No title
mk239 1940 49.8x35cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Last watercolour oil painting

Painting ID::  55219

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Last watercolour
mk239 1944 25.5x34.6cm
   
   
     

 

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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.