This classic book in the World of Art series traces the artist’s career – from youthful pictureseque views and watercolours of ‘Gothic’ ruins to the romantic landscape and historical compositions of his maturity, and the astonishing art of his later years. In these late paintings Turner’s...
My vision as an artist is a kind of Magical Realism. Simply ~ my paintings are inspired by a love for the mystery and beauty of the world. I find that I ...
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As a result of protracted litigation with his rather distant relatives, most of the money reverted to them, while both finished and unfinished paintings and drawings became national property as the Turner Bequest. It was not until 1908 that a special gallery was built by Sir Joseph Duveen to ...
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In a final act of self-promotion, he asked in his bequest that two of his paintings hang in the National Gallery alongside the work of Claude Lorrain –and you can see these stunning paintings in this exhibition.Turner also had a great rivalry with John Constable. At the Royal Academy ...
He encouraged artists to visit his Sussex estate at Petworth to study the fine collection of Old Master paintings and derive inspiration from the gardens and parkland. Turner was a regular visitor and produced many evocative drawings and watercolours of life at Petworth. Among the many works ...
At the onset of his career,Neo-Classical painting—a style characterized by “noble simplicity and calm grandeur“—was the prevailing genre of art. In this vein, Turner createdtopographicalpaintings; he, like other artists of his time, sought to depict his subjects as accurate and realistic as...