The Dallas Museum of Art in Texas is currently hosting a retrospective of the career of J. M. W. Turner, considered by many one of the greatest landscape painters in the history of art. The exhibit will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art later this year. VOA’s Carolyn Turner took in the more than 145 paintings and watercolors during the exhibition’s stop in Washington.
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What a lovely …
What a lovely documentary. Thank you for posting it!
Completely …
Completely awe-inspiring. Thank you. My favorite painter! He was a prodigy, did you know? Painted when he was a boy. There’s a great documentary on him and Caravaggio well worth seeing available at Netflix. I love the melding of what seems to me a variety of schools of art: realism, surrealism (before its time), classicism, romanticism, and pure larger-than-life-ness. Amazing.
Lovely video, …
Lovely video, fantastic artist. Saw many of his works at an exhibit at the Tate in London. Thanks so much for posting.
Love Turner.
Love Turner.
These paintings …
These paintings appear in pristine condition, for the most part. They have been lovingly cared for, and it shows. The internet images of his works do not begin to approach what they truly are- some of the greatest paintings ever produced.
I just saw the …
I just saw the exhibit. AMAZING and IMPRESSIVE! It is a once in a lifetime experience- so many paintings together.
Excellent exhibit, …
Excellent exhibit, I visited it yesterday at the Dallas Museum of Art, and it is still showing there. You don’t get that kind of opportunity to see great works like these everyday.
Fantastic. Right …
Fantastic. Right from an era when the painting was still a MASTERS’ job…
galleries are my …
galleries are my churches