... he was painting a memory or even painting a longing for yesteryear. Plumes of exhaust can be seen billowing out of the factories obstructing the view of the base of the mountain and a tall steeple can be seen shooting right into the middle of the gorgeous sunset. The subject of the painting, the sunset, being obscured speaks volumes as to his awareness of the urban landscape creeping its way upward and outward. Another important piece to note ... to Fortin who although captured the very same port did not have that same positivity in his works. Fortin's love for abounding and plentiful na...

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... think he didn't make her ugly) as he glides through the still sea like a black swan, towing the dim hulk of the warship. The calm of the sunset evokes in the spectator a mood of tranquil melancholy, but it also suggests the end of one day and the beginning of another. Did Turner look on the tug as a symbol of the New World towing behind it the old? Is it too fanciful to look on this seascape ... on its rugged wood; and even the sailor's child may not answer, nor know, that the night-dew lies deep in the war-rents of the wood of the old Temeraire." In this painting the progress of the Tem...

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