Archive for Marzo, 2008

Turner and seascapes

Author: podenglish_art
2 Marzo 2008

The sea is one of the elemental images of Romanticism. It compelled many artists to paint it.

J.M.W. Turner was obsessed by it in all its forms, though most of all by its violent aspects.

In  The Shipwreck (1805) Turner rendered the stormy sky and sea by employing minute touches of a fine brush.