Artist Presentation-J.M.W Turner
A big reason I chose to present the works of J.M.W. Turner is my personal interest in landscape painting. I prefer landscape painting over other kinds of painting because it focuses on painting nature as its subject and often time glorifies nature’s magnificence. It altered the tendency to paint only historical subjects and encouraged people to appreciate nature more. As you can see on the main page of my portfolio, I chose nature to be the overall theme because I believe nature plays an irreplaceable role throughout the course of human development and
Another reason I think adding my presentation on Turner is appropriate is his role as a revolutionary in the art world. Turner singlehandedly confirmed the status of landscape painting as a genre by itself and elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting, which had dominated the art world for centuries.
