William Turner containing emotion in landscape painting British Impressionism?

William turners portrait [Photo provided : Wikipedia]

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Name : Joseph Mallord William Turner

Birth : April 23 1775

Death : December 19 1851

Nationality : U.K

Art Movement : Romanticism

Main paintings : ‘Fishermen at Sea‘ ’The Grand Canal Venice’ Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbours Mouth

You can often see artists who draw landscapes on the streets when you are having a trip to Europe. In Korea landscapes are displayed as interior accessories that is to say landscapes are a familiar theme to us and offer spectacular views that cannot be seen in the downtown of the city. Today in introduces William Turner a British landscape painter whose landscape painting was popular when all of the Europe focused on figure painting.

Born in 1775 William Turner was a son of a barber in back street of central London and had a talent for art from an early age. Turners family lived in the Thames valley but the frequent appearance of water coastline and riverbanks in his paintings seems to have had a significant impact on the surrounding environment.


Turner grew up with various visual experience from rivers and towns to barbers and people and this ample visual experience was of great use to his art. He made money on the street at the age of 9 by painting copperplate print entered the Royal Academy School at the age of 14 held a watercolor exhibition at the age of 15 and grew so fast that he even had his own studio at the age of 18.

He was able to make remarkable progress especially in the field of landscape painting thanks to the work of an overseas landscape painter. The early paintings by Turner were influenced by French landscape artist Claude Laurent and were somewhat having classical landscape. His early masterpieces include Fishermen at Sea in 1796 Moonlight in 1797 and Dolbadarn Castle and Caernarvon Castle in 1798. Turner who had so much desire for Roland later dreamed of becoming a landscape painter who would surpass Roland.


Water and the sky the sun shining in the southern part of the country is Turners dream. It was a poem.-The famous phrase of the movie Mr. Turner-

His ability was certainly verified in 1799 and 1802. In 1799 at the youngest age of 24 he was elected as a associate member of the Royal Academy and three years later in 1802 he became a full member of the Academy. Recognized for his talent Turner sets out on a journey in search of diverse landscapes for more vigorous activities. He visited the Commonwealth countries such as Yorkshire Wales and Scotland in 1802 and traveled Europes inland for the first time the following year.

Especially he was impressed by the sunny environment such as the weather and architectural style of Italy. He loved Italy so much that he even went three times in total once every 10 years. Fascinated by the Italian sun and nature Turner then began to paint landscapes emphasizing his expression of light and atmosphere freeing himself from Rolands shadow from the 1810s.


If I were to draw a snowstorm I am not drawing it to make the viewers to understand it. I just want to show them what what the scene was like. -William Turner-

After understanding the colors Turner used the colors in the picture freely. Rather than simply drawing nature or scenery as it is he also tried to express the movement of objects and air in the picture with light and color. This was a very epoch-making approach that was unprecedented in landscape painting at the time.


In the case of the 1842 film Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbours Mouth the description of the ship being sucked into the typhoon that blows up to the shadow of the ship is very impressive. In gray brown and black the swirl of snowstorms in unpredictable directions was expressed and expressed in white where the light was seen in the distance which it was impossible to confirm whether it was the ship or the lighthouse. He did not just express the storm but also expressed the painters feeling looking at it.

William Turners paintings which depicted the emotions and atmosphere of painters rather than simple landscapes developed into impressionism in France in the future. When comparing Turners style of painting with that of impressionist painters there seems to be some truth in the theory that impressionist movement actually started from England.


Most of Turners representative landscape paintings were made in the 1830s and 1940s. He depicts the movement of light which could be sensed in various times weather and places including The Golden Bough in 1834 The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up in 1839 The Slave Ship in 1840 Light and Color(Goethes Theory) in 1843 and Rain Steam and Speed The Great Western Railway in 1844. It can be said that he was not only a painter but also a researcher of light and color.

Landscape paintings were treated as non-mainstream art in Europe from age of the Renaissance to the beginning of Impressionism. It is not easy for ordinary people to paint nature as it is but it means that the purpose of art is diminished among artists. However William Turner contributed greatly to the emergence of new landscapes and impressionism by presenting landscapes surpassing his mentor Claude Laurent.


If you want modern people living in the 21st century to take pictures of the scenery you can say take a photo of it. However even though a button-tap photo can take accurate and straightforward pictures in fact such pictures are spreading with better quality on the Internet. Among many reproductions we live in the era of Snob effect which we want to be seen differently from others.

Landscapes that are drawn with more emotion would be more meaningful and important present to me than the photos scattered in online. A landscape drawn by William Turner of the downtown of the city surrounded by skyscrapers. Understanding the exotic scenery and the emotions contained in the landscapes might give you new ideas.

Turners Dido building Carthage [Photo provided : Wikipedia]

Turners ‘Fishermen at Sea‘ [Photo provided : Wikipedia]

Turners ’The Grand Canal Venice’ [Photo provided : Wikipedia]

Turners Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbours Mouth [Photo provided : Wikipedia]

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