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“Turner pushed colour past description into pure atmosphere — gold, pearl, and stormcloud violet where the horizon used to be.”
J.M.W. Turner
Painter · Romanticism · 1775–1851
English Romantic whose late seascapes dissolved ships and horizons into golden sunsets and stormy spray.
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The Fighting Temeraire
1839
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Rain, Steam and Speed
1844
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The Slave Ship
1840
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Norham Castle, Sunrise
c. 1845
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The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons
1835
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Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth
1842
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“Turner pushed colour past description into pure atmosphere — gold, pearl, and stormcloud violet where the horizon used to be.”
English Romantic whose late seascapes dissolved ships and horizons into golden sunsets and stormy spray.