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Belfast Telegraph
5 days ago
- Belfast Telegraph
Five Turner works to be auctioned on 250th anniversary of painter's birth
Born in 1775, Joseph Mallord William Turner was a painter and printmaker during the English romantic period and was most famed for his landscapes, often of a nautical theme.
New Statesman
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New Statesman
Turner at 250
2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner, widely celebrated as Britain's greatest landscape painter. Yet, beyond the familiar image of the 'painter of light', Turner was a complex figure whose radical art often baffled his contemporaries. Tom Gatti meets the New Statesman's art critic, Michael Prodger, to explore why Turner still matters – and how themes in his work like the power of nature, the impact of technology, and national identity resonate profoundly today. Subscribers to the New Statesman can listen ad-free in our app. Download it on iOS or Android. Not a regular podcast listener? Read our guide on how to listen to New Statesman Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe Related
Wall Street Journal
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality' Review: The Measure of a Master
New Haven, Conn. Conventional wisdom has it that Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was the first modern artist, his impressionistic landscapes and seascapes preceding French Impressionism by at least half a century. Not only that, but in over nearly six decades of leading the British art world, he transformed the genres of landscape and seascape. Or so the organizers of 'J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality' at the Yale Center for British Art (through July 27) remind us. The show, containing more than 75 works—oil paintings, watercolors and prints—from the Center's own collection, the largest Turner holdings outside Britain, comes as close as an exhibition of its concision can in backing up that claim.
BBC News
25-04-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
How Turner's masterpieces inspired Tomasz Schafernaker
The legacy of British artist JMW Turner is without question and has been widely celebrated this week which marks the 250th anniversary of his birth. He has inspired generations of other artists over the centuries, including BBC Weather presenter Tomasz Schafernaker. Turner's oil paintings, watercolours and drawings were often very atmospheric, capturing moments of dramatic weather events. Storms, rain and fog feature in many works, along with ephemeral sunlight, striking sunrises and sunsets. Watch as Tomasz Schafernaker explains the enduring influence Turner's catalogue of work has had on his own credits:Self-Portrait c1799, Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775 – 1851, Getty ImagesThe Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 (1839), Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775 – 1851 © The National Gallery, LondonDutch Boats in a Gale, 1801, Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775 – 1851, Alamy
Times
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The wild side to JMW Turner — fish, fowl and his favourite moggies
I have just been to the birthday party of Joseph Mallord William Turner. He was born on April 23, 250 years ago, and an eagerly anticipated succession of anniversary celebrations kicked off with the opening of an exhibition in his former house. But why, as I step into the home of Britain's most popular landscape painter — not to mention the greatest painter of sunlight the world has known — do I find myself faced with a turkey cock? Turner's Kingdom: Beauty, Birds and Beasts, a tiny display mounted in a minute bedroom of Sandycombe Lodge — the Thames-side villa in Twickenham that Turner designed himself and to which, between 1813 and 1826, he habitually retreated — offers fresh perspectives on a familiar old
