J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner  (23 April 177519 December 1851), jiske uske time William Turner ke naam se jaana jaawat rahaa, ek English Romantic chitrkaar, printmaker aur watercolourist rahaa. Turner ke uske  expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes aur turbulent, jaada kar ke violent marine chitrkaar ke khaatir jaana jaawe hae. Uske  artistic style, jiske uu jindagi bhar develop karis rahaa Romanticism se duur rahaa — Realism ke bypass karis—aur, iske jagha, uske baad ke kaam  significant precursor of and presaging the later Impressionist and Abstract Art movements that arose in the decades after his death, rahaa. Uu aapan pichhe 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper chhorr gais hae. Uske kaam ke  leading English art critic John Ruskin 1840 se promote karis rahaa, aur uske aaj-kal as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting, ke khaatir jaana jaawe hae.

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