William Turner...

Fishermen at sea at sea

Snow storm

William Turner was a 19th century English Romantic water colorist and landscape painter. He is renowned for his study on effects of light on a painting and exuded a romantic sentiment of individual expression within his works. His lines appear to dissolve into one another whereby creating a semi -abstract inner sensibility with an emotional reaction using color to depict depth and perspective. He is commonly known as the painter of light. Light falls onto his subjects and radiates outwards. He creates a ephemeral sensibility using light to create an atmospheric affect. With this, his work is considered preface to impressionism. He applied an atmospheric washes of paint and depicted his human figures as symbols of humanity. He often placed them vulnerable to a natural world in a sublime and savage environment unmastered by man as evidence of the power of God. This was a common theme to many of the Romantic artists and poets of the time...