Turner: National Gallery of Australia

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William Turner (1775-1851) first had to overcome the legacy of late rococo academic teachings. He was simultaneously a romantic and a realist and yet he transcended both styles. His landscapes, far in advance of their time, have been called forerunners of Impressionism, yet they also possess traits that influenced Expressionism, and many of his late compositions are undeniably surrealistic.

Turner's art cannot be bound by such classifications, and remains an oddity to art history even today. His work arises from a unique relation to the nature that it depicts: through his brilliant sketches, he found a rigorously open kind of painting in which nature sets free the use of colour. And through the workings of the natural elements—especially atmospheric light—Turner confronted nature at the point where nature itself is an image. This book opens up Turner's paintings for the eye, demonstrating that he was not simply illustrating nature, but that his pictures speak directly to the eye as nature does itself—through a world of light and colour.

• Publisher : Thames & Hudson; First Edition (November 1, 1996)
• Language: : English
• Paperback : 240 pages
• ISBN-10 : 0500974373
• ISBN-13 : 978-0500974377
• Item Weight : 1.33 kgs
• Dimensions : 24cm x 1.9cm  x 30 cm