Were you to consult the National Gallery in London, you would learn that J. M. W. Turner - known as William Turner - is, quote, "perhaps the best-loved English romantic artist." He is something of a ...
Our first impressions of people and things don't always hold up well. Consider how the British art world first reacted to the paintings of J.M.W. Turner. Martha Teichner guides us through his life and ...
Before he died in 1851, the celebrated landscape and maritime painter J.M.W. Turner bequeathed much of his art to the British nation, so that the public could appreciate his work in perpetuity. But ...
Extraordinarily inventive and enduringly influential, J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) produced his most important and famous pictures after the age of sixty, in the last fifteen years of his life.
Museums around the globe have pulled out the stops to celebrate the 250th birthday of celebrated Romantic painter JMW Turner. Often called the “master of light,” the doyen of British art is beloved ...
Since she created a bridge between Abstract Expressionism (specifically Pollock, with his drip technique) and later Color Field painting with her innovative staining method with thinned, poured paint, ...
When the Houses of Parliament caught fire on the evening of October 16, 1834, tens of thousands of Londoners gathered to watch the conflagration from the banks of the Thames. For the painter JMW ...
"Mr. Turner," a movie opening in New York and Los Angeles Dec. 19, is a lovely collision of popular culture and fine art. The movie focuses on the art and life of Joseph Mallord William Turner ...
Lost for over 150 years, one of JMW Turner’s earliest oil paintings is about to go on display at London’s Sotheby’s before being auctioned. Titled ‘The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent’s Rock ...
There’s a moment in “Mr. Turner,” the captivating Mike Leigh movie about the last years in the life of audacious British painter J.M.W. Turner, when the artist is having a heated discussion at the ...
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode look at the long relationship between cinema and painting - 250 years since the birth of JMW ...