Joseph Mallord-William Turner (1775-1851)

Kenneth Clark says of Turner that he was the "first artist of the Romantic movement to rediscover color and its direct appeal to the sense. His approach to life was fundamentally pessimistic and catastrophic, and his love of the sea and the mountains satisfied a craving for all that was most extreme and potent in nature."  

In part one of the program Kenneth Clark reviews the neglected works which still startle those who consider Turner as primarily an 'abstract' artist. In the second part, Lord Clark looks at the more familiar Turner and discusses his rediscovery of color.
 

Available on two DVDs