Turner
According to the famous English art critic John Ruskin, Turner is the artist who more than any other succeeded in “representing the moods of nature in the most stirring and sincere way”. Without a doubt, Joseph Mallord William Turner, the greatest exponent of English Romanticism, interpreted the landscape genre like no other before him. By creating images poised between realistic representation and visionary abstraction, Turner used the landscape to capture the power of nature and the divine transcendence of creation, and to manifest the concept, so dear to the Romantic generation, of the Sublime. Fearlessly experimenting with new, industrially produced paints, working in both oil and watercolour to obtain extraordinary nuances that vibrate with an inner light, Turner was able to establish a dialogue between landscape painting and historical subjects, biblical themes, and Romantic ideals, liberating it from the tradition of the panoramic view in which the genre was, at the time, still imprisoned.