Art has filled our past, is filling present day and will fill the future. Art is something that has always been and will continue to be. Great men can depict many things through their art. One artist can look at something and paint a picture that can make you happy or sad. Artist paint pictures of nature that can evoke in each one of us, peace, tranquility or rage and fear. How do they motive us as a human race? How can a painting make us take a second look at nature? Frozen images of mankind, caught on canvas, with a stroke of a brush, can tell a life story. Is the story one that brings peace or continued loss? Let’s take a look at two great artists and see what their painted brush lines and swirls have to tell.
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London, England. The year was 1775, on April 23. Turner at the age of fourteen was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts. Turner‘s skill was not just limited to one medium. He is known for his many water color paintings, as well as his paintings of oil on canvas. Turner would paint a lot in the winter time, after spending the summers traveling, getting many ideas. Turner painted landscapes as well as people.
Claude Monet was born in Paris, in the year 1840. Monet moved with his family to Normandy. In 1857, after the death of his mother he moved in with Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, his aunt. While in living in Paris, Monet was learning the art trade under the supervision of Charles Gleyre. The artist in Paris, included Alfred Sisley, and Fréddéric Bazille. They would contribute new ideas advances in art. Monet would paint a lot of landscapes just as Turner had done. He would also paint people in daily routines of work and pleasure.
Joseph Turner was one of the most multifaceted, prosperous and argumentative painters, of landscapes in the nineteenth century. Turner expressed proficiency in several mediums of art. He mastered watercolor, etching as well as, oil