Turner is mostly recognized as the 19th century 's greatest landscape painter. His interest in the powers of nature was portrayed into canvas. As a popular Romantic painter focusing mainly on color and lighting, Turner 's works influenced the Impressionist movement. He is considered as an influential painter and is said to be the best landscapist of the 19th century. Turner was also a key inspiration for the Impressionist movement. He is most famous for his original interpretations of bringing light and color to his paintings. Turner displayed an evident evolution in his painting style throughout his long career. Though he stayed true to the genre of landscape, as his career progressed he began to pay less attention to the details of objects and landscape and more attention to the effects of light and color. He became increasingly fascinated with natural and atmospheric elements. His oil paintings and watercolors are considered very powerful. His paintings such as Rain, Steam and have are popular especially in Britain. Rain, Steam and Speed is oil in canvas. In his lifetime (1775-1851), he proved himself as a versatile and successful painter of nineteenth century. The romanticism is observed in a lot of his paintings.
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