... and Neo-expressionism. J.M. W. Turner achieved the most radical pictorial vision of any Romantic artist. Beginning with landscapes reminiscent of the 17th -century French painter Claude Lorrain, he became, in such later works as, "Snow Storm: Steam Boat Off a Harbour's Mouth", (1842), almost entirely concerned with atmospheric effects ... today consider the essence of Turner's genius. They have become an inspiration to Abstract Expressionists. For it was Turner, even more than Monet, who anticipated the reliance of these painters on colour, texture, and the actual process of painting in ...

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