J. M. W. Turner and "the finest poetic descriptions"
GETTY CENTER
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
During his lifetime and well before John Ruskin's defense in Modern Painters, J. M. W. Turner was the most celebrated landscape painter in Europe, admired as much for his historical landscapes as for his arresting naturalism. In this talk, Patrick Noon of the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts examines Turner's status and influence among the major Romantic landscape painters in England and France.
