James Mallord William Turner Paintings

American indian art 2724 ceramics pottery 7036 decorative art general 31 ethnographic indigenous artifacts 2135 glass 8116 greek roman egyptian. Turners aim was to document the great variety and range of landscape. Joseph mallord william turner 23 april 1775 19 december 1851 was an english romantic landscape painter watercolourist and printmaker whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for impressionism.
james mallord william turner paintings

The painting was based on a poem that described a slave ship caught in a typhoon and on the true story of the slave ship zong whose captain in 1781 had thrown overboard sick and dying slaves so that he could collect insurance money available only for slaves lost at sea.

James mallord william turner paintings. View joseph mallord william turner biographical information artworks upcoming at auction and sale prices from our price archives. Like a disaster movie turners painting transforms a natural catastrophe with death a near certainty into entertainment. Turner virtual tour joseph mallord william turner 1775 1851 later more commonly called j. He employed several engravers although he supervised the work at every stage etched some of the plates himself and made innumerable preparatory drawings.

From a young art student trained in executing. It depicts the building of the north african city of carthage with dido being the blue and white figure on the left. He is known for his expressive colourisations imaginative landscapes and turbulent often violent marine paintings. Some of the subjects were taken from his own existing paintings and watercolours.

In 1814 turner began a series on carthaginian subjects and this painting is one of its most famous. His first watercolor was accepted for the royal academy summer exhibition of 1790 when turner was 15. The subject of the painting is inspired by aeneid a latin epic poem written by virgil. Many of turners paintings captured the extreme changes in the skys colors that were drastically changed by the distant eruption of the volcano krakatoa in java indonesia.

One of turners most celebrated works slave ship is a striking example of the artists fascination with violence both human and elemental. Joseph mallord william turner ra 23 april 1775 19 december 1851 known contemporarily as william turner a was an english romantic painter printmaker and watercolourist. View all decorative art. Turner entered the royal academy of art in 1789 aged 14.

Joseph mallord william turner sunset c1830 5. Although turner was considered a controversial figure in his day he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.