LONDON — On view at the Tate Britain, Turner and the Masters places beautiful masterpieces by Canaletto, Rubens, Rembrandt and Titian next to some of JMW Turner’s most dramatic paintings. It shines light on a lesser-known side of the British Romantic painter: his obsession to prove he was...
Tate Britain's Turner and Venice exhibition, running until January 11, is a feast of misty light and colour. It includes evocative watercolours that Turner knew would not be appreciated in his own time and therefore never exhibited. Even the two paintings that have been reassessed by Ian ...
It is also a shame that the Tate Britain collection did not add it to its other two examples of Turner's genre paintings, where dentists could see it in its wider context in Turn- er's oeuvre. Postscript It would be agreeable to be able to report that the dental profession proved ...
JMW Turner Looking towards Lyme Regis (scene of one of Turner's most famous paintings) ©Shutterstock / Martin Kemp Joseph Mallord William Turner, to give him his full title, was one of Britain's greatest masters of British landscape watercolour painting. Known as the "Painter of Light", h...
Johnson, a painter known for her large portraits of Black subjects, aims to counter the marginalization of Black people in European art history. Her paintings feature herself and her family, and one piece, “Pieta,” is her response to the death ofGe...
CONTEMPORARY PAINTING For the best examples see: Greatest 20th century paintings. WORLDS TOP ARTISTS For top creative practitioners, see: Best Artists of All Time. Nominations, Shortlist, Art Show The Turner Prize for contemporary art is judged by an independent jury that changes each year. Nomina...
Turner's Britain, which is only being seen in Birmingham, draws together more than 130 oil paintings, watercolours and drawings from public and private collections in Britain and abroad. Curated by the artist's biographer James Hamilton, curator of Birmingham University's art collection, it ...
back much of his wealth through the courts. However, the paintings became the permanent property of England through the "Turner Bequest." In 1984, the Tate Britain museum created the prestigious Turner Prize art award presented annually to a prominent visual artist to honor William Turner's ...
the debate andbeing forced out of my gallery-going comfort zone. So I didn't go expecting thebest of contemporary art but I didn't expect what I got either.Turner Prize, A Retrospective 1ee)-Tate Britain CHARLOTTE ROSSI was surprised how small and tame Howard Hodgkin's paintings seem now...
In the future, the Master who elevated landscape painting to such a level as to have it compete with historic paintings in terms of value, went on to exhibit his works at the Royal Academy of Art for his entire life, in contention with Constable for the top spot of landscape painters. ...