... Temeraire, Turner was commemorating the passing of a part of the Trafalgar legend. Since the Temeraire tried to come to Nelson's defense in the battle of Trafalgar I think this particular painting had great meaning, emotionally and artistically for Turner. He was a great patriot, who loved and admired Nelson immensely and absolutely hated Napoleon. The Temeraire tried to take the brunt of ... great taste and propriety. A gorgeous horizon poetically intimates that the Sun of the Temeraire is setting in glory". "Of the pictures most contemporary critics, Thackeray, most openly affirms tha...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Martin rejected figurative images in attempting to portray her state of mind. In 1967, just as her artistic career was peaking, Martin stopped painting and over the next seven years built herself a house in New Mexico and devoted much of her time to writing and lecturing. This ... on a schema consisting of the interplay of horizontal and vertical lines have been recognized as presaging a number of postmodern art movements, including hard-edge painting, op art, conceptualism, and especially minimalism. But as the poet and critic John Ashbery has pointed out, Agnes Martin's "minimalism" is...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate