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Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
1787 – the first sketches and drawings, corroborating the tradition
Under Thomas Malton
1794 – engravings
1796 – oil paintings
The Influence
Cozens
the Welsh landscape painter Richard Wilson
The Technique
a more poetic and imaginative approach to landscape
pursue to the end of his career with ever-Increasing brilliance
to be more inward & consciously distilled light – the means of diminishing the
reality
The Royal Academy
1799 - an associate
1802 – a full academician
…so fundamental as his love of the sea …
The Cornerstones:
waves and storms, upon clouds and vapour
a consequent thorough knowledge of wave forms
at heart a sailor
a ship is perceived as a living creature
The Shipwreck
The theme being acute…
a liking to natural phenomena a period of great English shipping make trade possible to portray the power of the
elements and how no one is immune from the dangers of an angry sea
William Falconer
(shipwreck survivor of the
Britannia)
From Turner's
Notebook
Critics…
