Turner is known as Britain’s greatest painter, one who changed the direction of British art. He had a wide range of subjects, and his palette and painting techniques were unique. Turner was also a Romantic painter, seeing the sublime in nature’s grandeur and emphasizing human insignificance in the face of the forces of nature. In the 1830s and 40s his work became less distinct and that development baffled the critics. Yet it is those paintings, which prefigured abstractionism, for which he is most famous. This one-time course is led by Beth Stein, art historian and Lifetime Learning presenter since 2008.

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