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March 23, 2004
Too busy. Will post latter.
Turner, Sunrise for Scary Monsters, 1845
Turner is the exception to the exhaustion of the naturalistic tradition in the nineteenth century with its window into the world. He moves colour from the depiction of natural particularity of the landscape to the rendering of the universal effects of light. Though pre-modernist, Turner stands on the threshold of the shift to an autonomous abstract art. He is a forerunner.
For the romantics light is the most dramatic element in the drama of nature. You can see this in the late Sydney Harbour images of Conrad Martens. I cannot find any of these atmospheric Marten images online.
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