... . 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 of light and colour, mixing clouds, mist, snow, and sea into a vortex in which all distinct objects ... distance eventually become indistinct, and as the misty atmosphere, lit by the rising or setting sun, blazes into scarlets and vermilions, they fade away. Chromatic harmonies...

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