Bockemühl, Michael Primary Author mixed material bibliography koln Taschen 1993 monographic en English

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96 p As a blind person would see the world if the gift of sight suddenly returned - so might one describe the effect of Turner’s paintings on the observer. John Ruskin, the uncompromising nineteenth-century defender of the painting of William Turner (1775-1851) spoke of the ’innocence of the eye’, which perceived the colours and forms of the world before it recognized their significance. But in order to develop such a style, Turner first had to overcome the entire legacy of late rococo academic teachings. He was simultaneously a romantic and a realist - and yet he was neither. His landscapes, far in advance of their time, have been called forerunners of Impressionism, but they also possess traits that influenced Expressionism, and many of his late compositions are thoroughly surrealistic. Architecture 759.23822805548 Podomoro University Digital Library 759.2 Boc t 2018.07.3197 My Library 759.2 Boc t Turner.jpg.jpg 3423 2018-07-05 13:50:51 2018-08-01 14:52:29 machine generated