Turner. Light is Colour Exhibition at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

For the English Romantic painter, watercolourist and printmaker Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) the elements of nature are abstract forces, with their own symbolism and meaning. This exhibition explores his fascination with meteorological and atmospheric phenomena, from the beginnings of his work, in the 1790s, to the late 1840s. Turner – recognised as the best landscape painter of the Romantic period for his mastery of light, colour and atmosphere – paints the immense forces of nature that began to be threatened by the dawn of the first industrial revolution. Through some 100 works, paintings, drawings, sketches and prints, the exhibition traces the development of Turner's compositions, from the first sketches to his watercolours, oils, and final prints. The exhibition reveals how watercolour was fundamental in the artist's scientific but intuitive approach, which allowed him to grasp the intensity of the forces of nature.