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Turner, Joseph Mallord William
(1775 - 1851) "
... [He] responded to the encroaching industrialization ... [in
his art with] turbulent swirls of frothy pigment. The
passion and energy of Turner's works not only reveal the
Romantic sensibility that provided the fountainhead of his art,
but they also clearly illustrate Edmund Burke's concept of the
sublime - awe mixed with terror." - Gardner's
Art Through The Ages,
11th edition, Vol. II, p. 877 |
"Turner's style, often
referred to as visionary, was deeply rooted in the emotive
power of pure color. The haziness of his forms and the
indistinctness of his compositions imbued color and
energetic brushstrokes with greater impact. ... Turner's
methods had an incalculable effect on modern art's
development. His discovery of the aesthetic and
emotive power of pure color and his pushing of the medium's
fluidity to a point where the subject is almost manifest
through the paint itself were important steps toward
twentieth-century abstract art, which dispensed with shape
and form altogether." - Gardner's
Art Through The Ages,
11th edition, Vol. II, pp. 877 - 878
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