What Was David Turner Influence

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What about influences? An artist that was considered one of Britain's favorite painters from the romanticism movement had to have a significant following or social life within the community6. Turner was greatly influenced by other artists such as Willem van de Velde, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, and Thomas Gainsborough, as well as his close friend, an art critic John Ruskin5. But yet he had a greater influence on other artists he worked with or considered to be his close friends, such as John Constable, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Eugène Delacroix, Mark Rothko and his friend John Leicester5.
Something extraordinary to note with Turner is he was greatly influenced by the Romanticism movement in the art world and was one of the main artists to thus influence other styles of art, specifically the Impressionism movement and the Abstract Expressionism movement4. This is evident when examining his paintings and interpreting the ideology that is carried with each of the paintings.
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Now, this piece is unique in the sense that it was commissioned to be a comparison piece called Stormy Sea by Willem van de Velde the Younger1. Yet the artwork itself is very much so exhibiting the force of nature, as a rather traitorous cloud and matching storming sea is relentless against the almost model sized boats. This is something that is very common with romantic style work, a large landscape with people seen within just as they were, living and in this case trying to survive. As the dark and contrasting colours make it seem that nothing can match the holy power of mother nature and how she herself doesn’t bend to any whim of any living man. Which during the time it was painted, would be interchanged with the term 'lord and savior' as the Christian religion was widespread where Turner