Great Artists : J M W Turner : Posted by Gillian Hammerton .

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 – 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism.

Saturday, 23 June 2012

Ulysses deriding Polyphemus- Homer's Odyssey : 1829 : Joseph Mallord William Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner: 'Ulysses deriding Polyphemus- Homer's Odyssey'

Ulysses deriding Polyphemus- Homer's Odyssey : 1829 : Joseph Mallord William Turner

Ulysses is standing aloft on his ship deriding the Cyclops, whom he and his companions have just left blinded, and invoking the vengeance of Neptune. One of the flags is painted with the scene of the Trojan Horse. The horses of the Sun are rising above the horizon ('Odyssey', Book 9).