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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 Burning of the Houses mk68
Oil on canvas
Philadelphia,Philadelphia
Museum of Art
1835
Britain
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape with Juntion of the Severn and the Wye mk68
Oil on canvas
Paris,Louvre.
c.1845
Britain
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishing boats entering calais harbor mk76
Painted
c.1803
Oil on canvas
29x38 3/4in
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Antwerp van goyen looking our for a subject mk76
Painted in 1833
Oil on canvas
36 1/8x48 3/8in
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Joseph Mallord William Turner The harbor of dieppe mk76
Dated 1826
Oil on canvas
68 3/8x88 3/4in
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cologne:The arrival of a packet-boat:evening mk76
Painted in 1826
Oil and possibly watercolor on canvas
66 3/8x88 1/4in
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Details of Mortlake terrace:early summer morning mk76
Painted in 1826
Oil on canvas
36 5/8x48 1/2in
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mortlake terrace:early summer morning mk76
Painted in 1826
Oil on canvas
36 5/8x48 1/2in
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Houses of Parliament on Fire mk94
1834
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbor mk29
c.1803
Oil on canvas
73.7x98.4cm
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Snow Storm,Hannibal and his Amy Crossing the Alps mk156
c.1811
Oil on canvas
146x237.5cm
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dido Building Carthage or the rise of the Carthaginian Empire mk156
1815
Oil on canvas
155.5x23.2cm
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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Fighting Temeraire mk156
1839
Oil on canvas
91x122cm
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Joseph Mallord William Turner THed Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons,16 October,1834 mk156
c.1835
Oil on canvas
91x122cm
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rain,Steam and Speed mk156
Before 1844
Oil on canvas
91x121.8cm
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Snow Storm-Steam-Boat off a Harbour-s Mouth mk156
1842
Oil on canvas
91.4x121.9cm
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Joseph Mallord William Turner THe Grand Canal mk161
Oil on canvas
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Joseph Mallord William Turner The slave ship MK169
1840 Oileverf on cloth 90.8x122.6cm Museum or Finn Physician. Boston
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Glacier and source of the Avyron, Chamonix MK169
1802-03
water Color on paper
68.5x101.5cm
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Uysses Deriding Polyphemus mk170
1829
Oil on canvas
132.7x203.2cm
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
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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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