A similar dynamic occurred when Turner was linked to such Abstract Expressionists as ... A 1966 exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, “J.M.W. Turner: Imagination and Reality ...

JMW Turner’s luminous, shimmering paintings shocked the Victorians– and paved the way for 20th Century art. Alastair Sooke explores the late works and their influence. There is a fascinating ...

JMW Turner was ... negative reception. Turner was not surprised by the criticism he received. After all, Snow Storm hardly looks like a storm. Where other landscape artists of the time depicted ...

Anyone wanting to understand why Joseph Mallord William Turner is Britain’s greatest artist need look no further ... Many of his later semi-abstract seascapes feel like visualisations of that ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was the first modern artist, his impressionistic landscapes and seascapes preceding French Impressionism by at least half ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner is known, of course, for maritime masterpieces such as The Fighting Temeraire (1839). But the painter dubbed the “father of Modern art” also had a more sensual ...

The country's most important prize for modern artalso bears the name of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851 ... and even a forerunner of abstract art.

A year-long festival of exhibitions and events to celebrate 250 years since the birth of artist JMW Turner has been announced. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London on 23 April 1775 and ...

Tickets for the Walker Art Gallery’s major exhibition exploring the work of JMW Turner and his enduring impact on later generations are on sale from today – exactly 250 years since the artist ...

The Turner Prize, named after the 19th-century painter JMW Turner, is awarded each year to an exemplary artist born or based in the UK, and based on a presentation of work exhibited in the past year.