 | | | As he matured, Turner's approach to painting became increasingly idiosyncratic. Turner's late works were often ridiculed. To modern eyes, however, looking back over the last hundred years, when painters removed all subject except the paint, Turner's work is not only great but also prescient. Turner infused landscape with passion, energy, power, interpreting his subject on its most epic and elemental levels. Turner's work, with its strident emotionalism, has been called the culmination of the Romantic landscape. |
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