Impressions of Turner an Monet
Sixty-five years after the birth of one great artist, Joseph Mallord William Turner, another amazing artist was born. ... This celebrated painter was Claude Monet. Turner and Monet have certain paintings that could almost be interchanged between the two for their similar characteristics; nevertheless, the two icons similar paintings are classified in separate periods of art. Turner’s work is labelled English Romanticism while Monet’s paintings are regarded as Impressionistic. Painted in 1845 Turner’s “Landscape with a River and a Bay in the Background,” might as well have been considered one of the first great impressionistic pieces. ... If it had not been for Monet’s “Impression: Sunrise” in 1872 that defined the term impressionism and helped define its’ characteristics Turner may have been known as the first great impressionist artist instead of Monet (Turner Sunrise Painting). “Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog” by Monet was painted in London. This is rather ironic given that Monet a French artist painted an English scene in this painting and Turner an English artist painted a French landscape in “Landscape with a River and a Bay in the Background. ... Turner painted “Landscape with a River and a Bay in the Background” in 1845, and it is his only painting of France in his entire lifetime. This work of art is unquestionably an “airy vision” as Constable once described Turner’s paintings (Jansen & Jansen 677). ... It only seems to be Turner’s quick impression of the some arbitrary landscape the he observed when he passed through France. Furthermore, “Landscape with a River and a Bay in the Background,” as well as many other Turner paintings, seems to fit better if it were labelled an impressionistic painting. This is because Romanticism is often of the sublime or places linked with historic events, in spite of this; the painting by Turner labelled romantic by the critics seems to be only a quick impression of a scene he perceived. Possibly, Turner linked this picture with a historic literary scene or with a poem he wrote, however, there is no known text of this being the case (Jansen & Jansen 679). ... In addition, Turner has studied color theory, which without a doubt fits under the impressionistic style of thinking, and he eventually started to use “Goethe’s theory of positive and minus colors” in his artwork (Jansen & Jansen 679). Monet, on the other hand, is undoubtedly an impressionistic painter, and he is possible the most famous of them all.