Category: JMW Turner

5-minute meditation with Turner’s ‘Rain, Steam, and Speed’ | National Gallery

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Post date April 27, 2020
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This is amazing. A five-minute slow-looking exercise to enjoy the details of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s ‘Rain, Steam and Speed’.

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Great Artists: J. M. W. Turner – Britain’s ‘Painter of Light’ Who Chronicled a Changing Nation

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Post date April 27, 2020
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J. M. W. Turner was a prolific and brilliant artist often called the ‘painter of light’, who revolutionized landscape painting and set the stage for Impressionism and the development of abstract art. He became very wealthy from his work and increasingly eccentric. He never married but had two daughters from one lover and lived for […]