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Joseph Mallord William Turner, better known as J.M.W. Turner, was born
on April 23, 1775, in Covent Garden, London, England. A sickly child, Turner
was sent to live with his uncle in rural England, and it was during this period
that he began his artistic career. As a landscape painter, Turner brought
luminosity and Romantic imagery to his subjects. His workinitially realistic
became more fluid and poetic, and is now regarded as a predecessor to
Impressionism. Turner died on December 19, 1851, in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea,
London, England. J.M.W. Turner is an amazing artist that brought a new touch
to romanticism, and as a leading Romantic painter focusing mainly on color
and lighting, Turner's works went on to later influence the Impressionist
movement.
Romanticism is sometimes viewed as a reaction to its more serious
predecessor, the neoclassical movement. As Neoclassical artists focused on
properly accounting history through close attention to detail, Romantic
artists flirted with themes of man's self-glorification, man's part in nature,
divinity found in nature, and emotion. His art works contains mostly
landscapes with the occasional portrait. Ive personally noticed that most of
his works take place with the ocean. They are many times in a storm and you
see a boat rocking back and forth, or on a port where you can see the ships
floating in. There were very few paintings that didnt include the ocean in
some way.
J. M.W. Turner began his artistic career at a very young age and his
success was almost immediate, selling his first painting at just 12 years old.
Turner continued to accomplish significant achievements at a remarkably
young age, some that people with much more experience would never have
the privilege of enjoying. Throughout his career Turner remained highly
sought-after and he acquired a very large fortune from his commissions. He
is remembered as an influential painter and is said to be the best landscapist
of the 19th century. Turner was also a key inspiration for the Impressionist
movement. He is most well-known for his original interpretations of bringing
light and color to his paintings.
Turner displayed an evident evolution in his painting style throughout
his long career. Though he stayed true to the genre of landscape, as his
career progressed he began to pay less attention to the details of objects
and landscape and more attention to the effects of light and color. He
became increasingly fascinated with natural and atmospheric elements.
Looking at his art you can see his earlier works are detailed, but his later
ones are not as detailed but they contain several light effects and they are a
bit more blurry to the eye.
In Turner's early paintings he executed dramatic, Romantic subjects by
emphasizing luminosity, and atmosphere. One can observe a more precise
attention paid to architectural and natural details in his early years, as
compared to his later years. During this time, he played around with all the
styles of landscape composition including historical, architectural,
a vast majority of his work, as many of his subjects (mainly water) changed
so quickly, he had to do preliminary sketches. He later turned his sketches in
to watercolor or oil paintings.
landscapes. Some landscapes are plain with no feeling. Others may be more
detailed but Turner captures the lighting.
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