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| − | '''Joseph Mallord William Turner''' (Covent Garden 1775 - [[London]] 1851) was a [[British]] [[Romanticism|Romantic]] painter and printmaker. In 1802, when he was only 26, he became a full member of the Royal Academy, the youngest member ever so admitted. He traveled constantly in England and abroad ([[Venice]]). | + | '''Joseph Mallord William Turner''' (Covent Garden 1775 - [[London]] 1851) was a [[British]] [[Romanticism|Romantic]] painter and printmaker. In 1802, when he was only 26, he became a full member of the Royal Academy, the youngest member ever so admitted. He traveled constantly in England and abroad ([[Venice]]). A prolific artist, Turner produced over 550 oil paintings, over 2,000 highly detailed and finely finished watercolours, and some 30,000 works on paper. [http://www.turnersociety.org.uk/] |
Turner is perhaps the most famous [[English]] Romantic [[landscape]] artist. He became known as "the painter of light", perhaps inspired by the 'year without a summer', and the amazing sunsets that resulted from it. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Year_Without_a_Summer] ''The Shipwreck'', (1805) [http://www.conservapedia.com/Image:Turner_The_Shipwreck.jpg] shows his emphasis on luminosity, and dramatic subjects. | Turner is perhaps the most famous [[English]] Romantic [[landscape]] artist. He became known as "the painter of light", perhaps inspired by the 'year without a summer', and the amazing sunsets that resulted from it. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Year_Without_a_Summer] ''The Shipwreck'', (1805) [http://www.conservapedia.com/Image:Turner_The_Shipwreck.jpg] shows his emphasis on luminosity, and dramatic subjects. | ||
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Joseph Mallord William Turner (Covent Garden 1775 - London 1851) was a British Romantic painter and printmaker. In 1802, when he was only 26, he became a full member of the Royal Academy, the youngest member ever so admitted. He traveled constantly in England and abroad (Venice). A prolific artist, Turner produced over 550 oil paintings, over 2,000 highly detailed and finely finished watercolours, and some 30,000 works on paper. [1]
Turner is perhaps the most famous English Romantic landscape artist. He became known as "the painter of light", perhaps inspired by the 'year without a summer', and the amazing sunsets that resulted from it. [2] The Shipwreck, (1805) [3] shows his emphasis on luminosity, and dramatic subjects.
From 1807 he published a series of landscape prints known as the Liber Studiorum ('Book of Studies'), which demonstrated his abilities in every area of landscape art. [4]
Turner anticipated French Impressionism.
"The father of modern art", John Ruskin, 1843
Shipweck of the Minotaur, ca. 1810
- Continue to: William Turner / Gallery
See also
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- English Painting
- Painting Schools
- Gallery of Seascapes
- Antony van Dyck
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- John Constable
- Claude Lorrain
External links
- William Turner Web Gallery of Art.
- J.M.W.Turner in Venice
- Fame and the Founding Father By Joseph Phelan.
- Joseph Mallord William Turner Watercolor artists.
- The story behind The Fighting Temeraire Britain's favourite painting.