Turner (1825)
March 23, 2009
I looked at the Tate Turners (1775-1851) and began to have an appreciation for his importance in moving painting from realism to abstraction. It took seeing his watercolor on paper paintings for me to “get it“. Turner showed the possibility inherent in color and in paint to evoke an emotional response. Constable was close - but Turner took painting into the modern world of abstraction as we know it.
