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The way JMW Turner depicted a storm at sea shocked his contemporaries, and foreshadowed the evolution of abstract art. He supposedly made the dangerous voyage to better experience the storm.
The painting that resulted, Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842), shows a boat literally in the eye of the storm, caught in the middle of a spiral of wind and water. Land has ...
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No one took greater imaginative leaps and risks than Turner - MSNAnyone wanting to understand why Joseph Mallord William Turner is Britain’s greatest artist need look no further than his extraordinary 1842 painting Snow Storm – Steam-Boat Off a Harbour’s ...
Slavers, Throwing Overboard The Dead And Dying (1840) "Turner tackles a serious social subject, and produces a dazzlingly powerful image. Paradoxically, for a scene set at sea, he deploys a fiery ...
The result is not a perfect distillation of Turner’s marine painting – no “Peace – Burial at Sea” (1842) or “The Slave Ship” (1840), no history pictures such as “The Parting of ...
The first oil painting ever exhibited by Turner is to be put up for auction after being lost for more 150 years. The Rising Squall features a dramatic view of a former hot spring and spa in ...
"Turner paints the veteran warship, hero of the battle of Trafalgar, as a pale and ghostly mass looming against a rich, panoramic sunset. It has a sense of latent power still not quite eclipsed by ...
The first oil painting ever exhibited by Turner is to be put up for auction after being lost for more 150 years. ... experts believed Turner's earliest exhibited oil was his Fisherman at Sea painting.
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