The BioGem -- Sharing Celebrations -- Annette Bush

Each Week, Annette writes a short profile about an artist whose birthday is that week. These "BioGems" provide a fun insight into art history and offer a suggestion for sharing the celebration with these famous and not-so-famous creative spirits.

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Eugène
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Fill Your Heart

JMW Turner
April 23, 1775 - 1851
Painter - Impressionist - England

It is said that Turner's father recognized very early that his son would be an artist. I suspect that he watched his son daydreaming under clouds in the sky or dawdling near a construction area or sitting quietly watching insects or birds or . . . doing anything except the assigned tasks. And, I can just hear his father saying, "That boy will have to be a painter." meaning "he's not fit to be anything else!"

So . . . Joseph Mallord William Turner was enrolled in the Royal Academy to study art. His classical training and love of history is the foundation of his paintings. His observations and love of the atmospheric effects of the Industrial Revolution is the passion.

He painted the violence of the seas and skies in shipwrecks. He recreated the smoke and steam from factories and the speeding locomotive. He painted skies drenched in light and color and filled with movement. He painted castles surrounded in mists, quiet streets, calm lakes, and shining canals; all with details which, at the same time, remind of the past and point to the future. He left a great inventory of paintings more than 300 oil paintings and more than 20,000 watercolors and drawings filled with slashing colors and loose, dramatic brushwork.

In April, the clouds, the smoke, the wind are so like those loved by Turner AND this week includes Earth Day . . . so spend an hour or two watching a fiery sunset, finding pictures in the clouds, marveling at the colors and movement in early morning smoke, or watching tiny ripples disturb a mirror smooth pond. No notes, no sketches, no photos. Just you and JMW Turner observing with your hearts.

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