J.M.W. Turner
J.M.W.
Turner (1775–1851) was an English painter celebrated for his luminous landscapes and seascapes.
His later work anticipated Impressionism, dissolving form into swirling light and atmosphere: The gallery has three Turners.
Turner's name often appears in discussions of Romantic art and the sublime in nature.
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- English landscapeScenery of England
- landscapeVisible features of terrain
- seascapesArtworks showing ocean scenery
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
color theory · atmosphere · sublime · watercolor · oil · mist · storm · shipwreck · Venice · Thames · sunset · golden · haze · luminous · brushwork · impressionistic · maritime · clouds
- RomanticismWilliam Blake, the sublime, Eugene Delacroix, emotionalism, sublime
- British ArtBritish painters, Tate, David Hockney, Tate Gallery, Francis Bacon
- Georgian BritonsJane Austen, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats, William Blake
- Landscape PaintersBarbizon School
- VictoriansCharles Dickens, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson
- Marine PaintersWilliam Bradford
artistic style and approach
J.M.W. Turnerneoclassicism
Movement emulating antiquity's forms
photorealism · Johannes Vermeer · Pre-Raphaelites · Hans Holbein · hyperrealism