Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation ... including the mechanisation of factories and the invention of the steam engine. JMW Turner was a ground-breaking painter whose work ...

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 ...

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.

This being the 250th anniversary of JMW ... world art, an Impressionist avant la lettre. Check out in particular the sketchbooks and drawings in a show at the Tate called Cataloguing Turner ...

Mr. Turner director Mike Leigh, art historian Charlotte Mullins and artist Alvaro Barrington celebrate the life and work of JMW Turner, on the 250th anniversary of his birth. Show more Mr. Turner ...

The projection is part of celebrations for the 250th anniversary of JMW ... will be on display at Turner Contemporary from Tuesday. Work inspired by the famous Romantic painter will be on show ...

This year marks the 250th anniversary of his birth, but it was a midlife encounter with two landscapes that created the painter as we know him. By Michael Prodger JMW Turner baffled his contemporaries ...

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 ...

This year’s nominees for the prestigious art award include Mohammed Sami ... in London on the 250th anniversary of the birth of J.M.W. Turner, the 19th-century painter for whom the prize ...