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Turner & English Landscape Painting

Of the school of English landscape painting during the romantic period, Joseph Mallord William TurnerÆs paintings ôàread nature in its terror and grandeur somewhat more often than in its peace and serenity,ö (Tansey and Kleiner p. 950). Turner received little if any general education but by age fourteen he was enrolled in the Royal Academy of the Arts (Turner p. 1). Turner is consider among the finest of the English romantic painters and is considered a master of watercolor. His ôFishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fishö (c.1805) demonstrates both his unique reading of nature and romanticism as well as his unsurpassed abilities in watercolor. The work also demonstrates the influence of 17th-century Dutch sea paintings on Turner, paintings to which he was exposed as a youth.

Joseph TurnerÆs father recognized his sonÆs artistic abilities at an early age, often exhibiting his drawings in his shop window. Turner enrolled in the Royal Academy of Arts as a young teen and immediately began a career as an illustrator after three years there. His seascapes often demonstrate the elements of the romantic period in English landscapes but also a unique perspective on nature. TurnerÆs view of nature is often one of awe and insignificance with respect to the relationship between human beings and nature. In Fishing, we see this view of nature as a group of fishermen battle to keep afloat during rough seas. The men, trying to earn a living, are pitted against the harsh and merciless nature of the sea. Turner often created works reflecting what Janson has called, ônoble and serious human actionsö (594).

Turner often painted works that exhibited concern for social injustice. In this work we see that Turner appears to believe the occupation of fishing to be a noble and serious human endeavor. Common working men in an effort to feed their families willingly pit themselves against the much more powerful and often arbit...

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