Turner. Light is color Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

J.M.W. Turner. Going to the Ball (San Martino), exhibited in 1846. Tate: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856.

For the English Romantic painter, watercolorist and printmaker Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) the elements of nature were abstract forces, with their own symbolism and meaning. This exhibition explores his fascination with meteorological and... Show more

J.M.W. Turner. Going to the Ball (San Martino), exhibited in 1846. Tate: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856.

For the English Romantic painter, watercolorist and printmaker Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) the elements of nature were abstract forces, with their own symbolism and meaning. This exhibition explores his fascination with meteorological and atmospheric phenomena, from the beginnings of his work in the 1790s to the late 1840s.

Turner, recognized as the greatest landscape painter of the Romantic period for his mastery of light, color and atmosphere, paints the immense forces of nature that already at that time of great change, at the beginning of the first industrial revolution, were beginning to be threatened.