Joseph Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner April 1775 – 19 December 1851

Amanda Tichenor 1A IES Menéndez y Pelayo

Who is Turner? 

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Turner was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker He used the Impressionism and the Romanticism to express himself in the paintings He was considered the artist who elevated the landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting

Turner's Life 

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Turner was born in London, England. Turner was sent to stay with his uncle in Brentford, here he expressed an interest in painting He entered the Royal Academy of Art schools A watercolour of Turner's was accepted for the Summer Exhibition One of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting, he was known as "the painter of light“ At Petworth House in West Sussex he painted scenes from the grounds of the house and of the Sussex countryside Turner became eccentric He died in the house of his mistress Sophia Caroline Booth

Style 

He innovated freely

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Chromatic palette

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At the begining:Emphasis on the destructive power of nature, watercolour technique with oil paints, creation of lightness, fluency and atmospherical effects Later: oils more transparently, shimmering colour, evanescent light, French influence

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Subjects: shipwrecks, fires, natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog. He painted humans to show: affection for humanity, the humans vulnerability to the sublime nature John Ruskin described Turner as an artist who could measure the moods of Nature