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The Yale Center for British Art draws on its wealth of Turner works to stage an exhibition that showcases his immense talent ...
This year’s nominees for the prestigious art award include Mohammed Sami, an Iraqi painter, and Zadie Xa, a Canadian installation artist.
In a rare U.S. show, Feng Xiao-Min reflects on Taoism, tradition and artistic independence while balancing Chinese ink and ...
Although Turner was trained within the English topographical tradition, his practice was deeply rooted in a wider European heritage of landscape painting. He was inspired by 17th-century Dutch artists ...
As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW Turner, it's time to reappraise his beloved and celebrated painting, The Fighting Temeraire.
‘I am biased, of course, but I would have to choose Turner’s famous View of Belvoir Castle. From a very young age, when we first moved into Belvoir, this painting captured my attention. It feels both ...
He was known as the “painter of light” thanks to his atmospheric all-weather landscapes illuminating scenes from natural life ...
This is in stark contrast with Turner's great rival John Constable, whose parents were from the elite, and whose paintings tended to overlook some of the most seismic changes that were reshaping ...