For the past six years, the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has been working with a color chemist to produce paint pigments that correspond to each nanometer of the visible light spectrum.
Portrait of JMW Turner', circa 1841 (1904) - The Print Collector/Getty Images A leading expert on JMW Turner has called for the Tate and National Gallery to explain why two of the paintings that the ...
J.M.W. Turner, “Harbor of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile” (exhibited 1825, but subsequently dated 1826), oil on canvas, 68 3/8 x 88 3/4 inches (the Frick Collection, New York; photo by Michael ...
His portrait adorns the United Kingdom's 20 pound bill. The country's most important prize for modern artalso bears the name of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). The artist was firstly ...
Anyone wanting to understand why Joseph Mallord William Turner is Britain’s greatest artist need look no further than his extraordinary 1842 painting Snow Storm – Steam-Boat Off a Harbour’s Mouth, on ...
J. M. W. Turner, Vesuvius in Eruption, between 1817 and 1820; watercolor, gum, scraping out on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Courtesy the Yale Center for British Art The ...