Turner_Parkstone Press_9781781601419_Parkstone Press Ltd

Author:  Parkstone Press

Format:  Hardback | 144 pages

Dimensions: 103 x 144 x 12.7mm | 227g

Publication date: 01 Feb 2015

A true free radical of his era, J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) was known as 'the painter of light' and was a revelation for the Impressionist movement. This traveller-landscapist's paintings intensified over time to definitively leave figurative reality behind, offering instead a luminous vision transfigured by nature. A visionary ahead of his time, his art was received with much controversy. In step with his life, his last years were synonymous with self-denial for the benefit of his art, and upon his death he bequeathed over 20,000 works to the British state.