Turner was born in London on April 23, 1775. He was the son of a barber and came from humble beginnings. His mother died when he was very young. He started drawing when he was very young; some of his drawings were done at twelve years old. He learned to draw by coping work others. By the time

he was fourteen, he began the practise he continued all his life. He would travel during the summer months notes his way through the English countryside and through Europe. He would make notes from nature in pencil or watercolor, which he used afterward as material for his paintings. His main source of influence and encouragement, in his early years, came from Dr. Munro, who used to invite Turner, Girtin, and other young artists to his house and he would allow them to copy his collection of watercolors by J.R. Cozens (Chamot 5).

In 1829, Turner’s father passed away. This began a period in his work called the “color beginnings” (Selz 67). This was a new relationship between color and drawing. Until now, Turner’s work was always true to what the architecture looked like. He would study the various elements in his paintings on different levels. He was meticulous with his work. Turner began to paint in watercolors again. “He freed himself in the way in which Monet, some forty years later, was to conceive painting only in terms of his most fleeting visual impressions. Here Turner was the obvious precursor of Impressionism” (Butlin 69). Now Turner was looking at the color of an object and not just its shape. The way Turner painted the sky and sea also changed. He changed from painting the sea and sky as real as possible to conveying atmospheric impressions.

When we look at Turner’s early work, we can see that he paid attention to detail. He believed in structuring the painting with drawings and sketches. He also used classical organization and focused on other painters like Claude. In his later paintings, we can see Turner expressing himself through colors. “Turner’s pictures, even the sketches, are subject pictures. They are not impressions of landscape but visionary statements about landscape, about forces of nature, whether life-giving or destructive, that underlie natural appearances. Thus Turner, although his work was based on phenomen

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