The luminous quality of his paintings has often been remarked. And it is possible that his early experience of river light helped to form his mature sensibility. His water-colour sketches of the river look as if they have been imbued with the light of the Thames, as if the water has washed over the paper and left its radiance there. ibid.
Turner’s surfaces are still startling ... Turner makes light the vehicle of feeling. And he found inspiration for an amazing variety of ways to express feeling from the River Thames. Matthew Collings, Turner’s Thames, BBC 2012
Turner always returned to this relationship with the Thames. ibid.
Moonlight – A Study at Millbank ... Mood, feeling, emotion, ideas. ibid.
Turner was an awkward cuss as a personality. ibid.
Turner becomes the great romantic artist. Turner’s romantic ideal was that everything should seem to be either on the verge of dissolving or just about to be born. ibid.
His poetic painting. ibid.
Turner is the maverick artist, the visionary who is using the Thames as a trigger for an idealised scene that evokes the texture of everyday life as it was living in 1809. ibid.
In Turner’s time the sublime implied the greatest intensity of feeling. ibid.
England: Richmond Hill on the Prince Regent’s Birthday: It’s Turner’s big public statement to the nation. ibid.
The role of emotion in his art and its link to colour. ibid.
The solitary king of light. ibid.
The Fighting Temeraire: The magnitude and sorrow of loss. ibid.
A profoundly talented artist. ibid.
Empty, unhinged, distorted: unknown forces greater than ourselves are shaping us to be something we don’t feel we really are, something unnatural. Matthew Collings, This is Civilisation III: Save Our Souls, BBC 2007
This feeling of catastrophe isn’t really unique to modern life. ibid.
We feel we are losing our individuality, our creativity, we feel meaningless. Tonight we’re going to meet a Victorian who thought he could fight that process, that civilisation could rise again … He is an art guru: John Ruskin. His life’s work is about the power of art to save our souls. Ruskin was a great battling critical mind. He taught Victorians to see clearly, and through that to understand what they could be, they were better than themselves. ibid.
We’re looking at the redeeming power of art. Art is not just a distraction from the gruelling trip of life, it is life. It is our imaginative proposal of what art could be. ibid.
Ruskin is the prophet of why art matters. ibid.
In the 1840s John Ruskin put art, man and nature together … The man who fires up Ruskin to become the guru of the age was the great landscape painter J M W Turner. Turner paints nature … the emotion of that experience. He paint’s nature’s power. ibid.
In the late stages of his art, Turner has gone on to a new level, elemental, powerful, yet sublime. ibid.
It’s Ruskin who rescues Turner’s reputation. Ibid.
In the late stages of his art, Turner has gone on to a new level, elemental, powerful, yet sublime. ibid.
It’s Ruskin who rescues Turner’s reputation. Ibid.
Ruskin is the guy who comes up with the idea of a bad Renaissance instead of a good one … Renaissance bad, Gothic good. ibid.
The world has never seen anything like this picture. William Thackeray 1844 review of Rain, Steam & Speed
Turner stands over every other British landscape painter. The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution, BBC 2013
Britain experienced the most tumultuous upheaval in its history: the Industrial Revolution. A new age was being created. ibid.
Crossing the Brook 1815 ... the Industrial Revolution is about to transform the landscape. ibid.
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway 1844 ... For Turner industry has become the sublime. ibid.
William Turner was born in 1775. J M W Turner, Sky Arts 2013
He was admitted as a pupil to the Royal Academy at the age of just fourteen. ibid.
The painter’s fascination with the sea and ships led him to paint more storm scenes and shipwrecks. ibid.
History painting remained the noblest genre in Turner’s time. ibid.
The painter seemed to gradually lose interest in representing things. ibid.
If I could find anything blacker than black, I’d use it. J M W Turner
Because it was here in London that Monet and Pissarro discovered Turner. Waldemar Januszczak, The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution I: Gang of Four, BBC 2011
How dare you take your leave of me, Billy Turner! You insult me as you have always insulted me! Billy! Mr Turner 2014 starring Timothy Spall & Dorothy Atkinson & Marion Bailey & Paul Jesson & Lesley Manville & Martin Savage & Ruth Sheen & Karl Johnson & Sandy Foster & Amy Dawson et al, director Mike Leigh, mother of children
Claude was a man of his time. Claude Lorrain was a genius. ibid. Tuner
I fear that I too am finished. ibid. Turner in the photoshop
For everything you’ve ever produced – one hundred thousand pounds. What do you say? ibid. rich punter
The sun is God. ibid.
We explore a group of paintings once thought to be by Britain’s greatest landscape painter – Turner. For over 60 years they have been condemned as fakes. Fake or Fortune? s2e2: Turner: A Miscarriage of Justice?
Margate Jetty was cut down on all four sides. ibid.
Welcome to Dudley: This is 19th century painted by Constable’s greatest rival and Britain’s other favourite landscape painter J M W Turner. Awesome Beauty: The Art of Industrial Landscapes, BBC 2017
J M W Turner: Dudley Worcestershire 1832: The great thinker and art critic John Ruskin saw in the picture an indictment of how the old way of life was being destroyed by the factory and the machine. David Olusoga, Civilisation s1e8: The Cult of Progress, BBC 2018
National Gallery, London: It’s a haunting image to the backdrop of a pink, grey, orange sunset jumps a small dark steamer pulling a shimmering pale sailing-ship. Great Paintings of the World with Andrew Marr s1e3: The Fighting Tameraire, Channel 5 2020
Britain’s finest ever artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner. Turner was the kind of artistic superstar of British painting of the nineteenth century. ibid.
‘At the age of 14, which was young even in those days, he was admitted to the Royal Academy.’ ibid. Susie Hodge, author
This was an artist who in his twenties had taken London by storm … In 1807 he was appointed a professor at the prestigious Royal Academy … An astonishing rise for a boy from a barber’s shop. ibid.
One of Britain’s most famous and revered artists, the landscape painter J M W Turner. Art on the BBC: Turner – Light and Landscape, Leslie Primo reporting, BBC 2022
‘Luminous, extravagant, romantic, technicolour, over the top …’ ibid. Sister Wendy
The paintings of J M W Turner are today considered among the nation’s greatest treasures. No-one had ever seen paintings like these before. ibid.
A British pioneer who captured the changing skies of his own time with fresh eyes. Arguably the first environmental artist: J M W Turner. Art that Made Us VI: Rise of the Cities, BBC 2022
A British pioneer who captured the changing skies of his own time with fresh eyes. Arguably the first environmental artist: J M W Turner. Art that Made Us VI: Rise of the Cities
Joseph Mallord William Turner is regarded as one of the most original and influential British artists of all time. His work was transformative. It shocked the Victorians and paved the way for modern art. Decoding Turner: The Hidden World of Britain’s Greatest Painter, Sky Arts 2023
Despite having been viewed by millions of people, previously unnoticed complex images painted with precision that have been overlooked for 170 years have been found hidden within the paint strokes of Turner’s greatest works. ibid.
Hidden images that are electrifying … Within a number of paintings we’ve found that astonishingly a bear appears … Turner represents himself as a bear. ibid.
These hidden images reveal new narratives where none had previously existed. ibid.