Turner "the painter of light"

Self portrait, oil on canvas, circa 1799

"We want to make a small tribute to a masterful British painter Turner to represent as anyone knew, the effects of light on the elements and use them to give sublime emotion and drama never seen before in landscape painting."

Joseph Mallord William Turner, was a British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. Some of his works also are cited as examples of Abstract Art existing prior to recognition in the early twentieth century.

Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway painted (1844).

"In the paintings of Turner "Rain, Steam and Speed" reflects a strong knowledge of the oil using the same technique and superb knowledge of the light that filters through the dense mix of the three elements that come together at that moment that the artwork is created."

The shipwreck of the Minotaur, oil on canvas

"Turner in this artwork "Shipwreck of the Minotaur" shows a battle between man and the sea, a battle for survival amid a hellish storm that is extraordinarily with the use of lights and shadows.

highlights the main scene of the sinking of this copper illuminating the rest is more dim giving the work a terrifying drama."

Turner's Ovid Banished From Rome, 1838.
The Athenaeum (http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=21466)

"In this work the author represents the banishment of the poet with a bright and dazzling sunset depicting the sad end of Ovid on the outskirts of the city, sad and sunk by the forced eviction. It's exciting!"