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Artist J.M.W. Turner, RA. The Engravings. Perhaps the most
famous English
Romantic landscape artist. Turner products many engravings and was very
hands-on in there progress to printings.
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Boats off Calais
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| One of the beautifully composed and carefully execute early painting
of Turner, when, though painting all things direct from nature itself,
he had not emancipated himself entirely from the influence the Dutch
painters of marine subjects. But though such compositions are common
enough, they never tire when they are beautiful as this. There is an
inexhaustible beauty of colour and form in sea and sky and sail and boat
which will never fail to produce new and beautiful combinations as long
as art exists; and if there is something of Vandervelde discernible in
the arrangement of the masses of light and shade, there is a depth of
original observation traceable in the execution of the painting which
is, perhaps, more true to nature and contains more of her truth than any
picture painted before Turner. In the painting of the sea alone Turner
advanced his art more in a few years than other painters had in
centuries. With him the conventional wave, with its one side all light
its other all dark. with little depth or transparency. and without an
attempt at representing its infinite reflective power, disappeared, and
instead we had real water—the liquid movable mirror, with its Protean
elasticity and its incompressible force. |
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