Improv Everywhere should have there own show, but then that would go against what they stand for. They are considered to be a form of flash mobs, but ironically they do not like to be called flash mobs. They sometimes perform as a group or sometimes just one person will perform. They do different skits that shock their audience. It's not publisized that they will do this. So it comes to a shock to whoever finds themselves in the middle of a performance. One of the big group performance that they have done was at a best buy. Many of the performers dressed in blue shirts and slacks. They entered the best buy and just walked around. They didn't bother anyone or make a scene, they simply walked and confused everybody working there and the customers.

They have done some performances where only one person is actually performing. There is a performance where they where at a skating rink with many different people. Improve members and unexpecting people alike. So at the beginning people were just skating like any other day. Then the people in charge were going to clean The ice so they evacuated the ice and everybody got out. Except for one man. That man seemed to be stuck in the middle of the ice unable to exit because of his lack of talent. Nobody even bothered to help him out of the ice.

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist. He does land art in places that some land artists don't usually do land art. Most land artists that I've heard of do their pieces in a natural environment, but he does some prices in galleries. Although he does do pieces out in the outdoors. I just thought it was interesting how he did pieces in galleries. He lives and does much of his work in scotland. He does pieces that don't last very long and pieces that last a long time. Goldsworthy did much of his studies in the fine art at Bradford College of Art (1974–1975) and at Preston Polytechnic. He uses a lot of natural material such as twigs, rocks, leaves, ice, flowers, mud, pine cones, snow, and many more other things.

this is one of the pieces that he did it is made out of leaves. He made it out of different colored leaves and went from dark to lighter colors. At the center he left a hole and he has done many of these pieces. He uses Defferent colors it the leaves are all from the same tree. He really likes circles and I thinks it's because it's a shape that you can find naturally in nature.

Burning Man: artist

Once a year, many people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Many people call this place "the playa". They gather to create Black Rock City, which is a temporary festival filled with, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. After one week the festival is over and the people leave absolutely no trace that they were ever there.

The people that are there go just about every year. The people that go are and have become a comunity seeing eachother every year after year.

Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic born November 30, 1946 is a New York-based Yugoslavian performance artist. She began her career in the early 1970s. Since she has been performing for over three decades, she has recently started describing herself as the “grandmother of performance art.”What is interesting about Abramovic's work is that it explores the relationship between performer and audience.She does a lot of things that show the limits of the human body, and the possibilities of the mind.

One of her first pieces was done in in 1973. This piece is called "Rhythm 10" in this piece she placed out twenty knives and played the Russian game where she aims in between her split fingers and continues to do this until she cuts herself. After she cuts herself she places that knife down, and picks up another one and repeats the process util she has cut herself twenty times. All of this is being recorded in an audio recorder, and when she finished with all twenty knives she plays back the audio and tries to recreate the same scene. She tries to make the same mistakes she did before at the same time. She sees this as a way of bringing together the past and the present. She also does this as a form of pushing the body to its limit. She says that once you are in the moment of a performance your body can do things you couldn't imagine it doing.

      Rhythm 10
This video was just a recreation of her performance.

Another one of her pieces that pushed her to her own limits was "Rhythm 5." In this piece she lit a giant star on the ground on fire and stood on the outside of it. While she stood on the outside of the burning star she began to cut her nails and hair.She then began throwing her hair and nails into the flames causing a flash of light every time. towards the finally of her performance she jumped into the center of the star. There she began loosing conciseness because of the lack of oxygen. People in the audience didn't realize it until the flames began to get really close and she wasn't reacting to them. A doctor and audeince members pulled her out of the star and may have saved her life. After the performance she expressed her experiance. She was actually angry that the performance took out and showed her limitation. She was angry because her body was limited to perform only in consciousness.  

Rhythm 5

After her Rhythm 5 performance she wanted to further explore the ability of the mind. She was angry about her rhythm 5 performance because she was unable to continue her performance because she became unconscious. So her next performance that explored wether or not consciousness was a limitation of performing and if it could be combined into the performance. She performed Rhythm 2. This was a two part piece where in the first part she took a pill prescribed to people with catatonia. Catatonia is a condition where the person's muscles seize up and become immobilized for hour at a time. Since she was healthy and didn't have this condition she had really drastic reactions to the pill. She began to have seizures and uncontrollable body movements for the first half of her performance. Although she had no controll over her body her mind was lucid and she was just observing what was occurring. After the effects of the pill wore off she took a second pill prescribed to people who are violent and depressed. This caused her to become completely immobilized. Although bodily she was there, her mind was completely removed. In fact she has no memory of the end half of her performance. This is some of her early work which was all about exploring the bouduries and limitations of the human body and mind.

Rhythm 0

My Video Art

Hope you like it... or not.

http://youtu.be/5UjNYBg6NvU

12 of 12 short artists - Toni Dove

Toni Dove is a New York based artist that works primarily in electronic and interactive media. She is considered to be on of the pioneers of interactive media. What interactive media is all about is it involves computer programing and the text or whatever the program is involving moves when the artist tell it to move. that is why it is called interactive media. For example if the artist gives the text a command the text moves. one of the things that she is most famous for is spectropia. At the bottom is a still photo of a piece that uses video motion censers in order to move.

11 of 12 short artists - John Whitney

John Whitney

John Whitney, Sr. was born on April 8, 1917 and past on September 22, 1995. He was an American animator, composer and inventor, he is considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. He lived and worked on his animation in era where there weren't so many advances in animated technology. He would do everything in step by step. He would take a still photo  and then move whatever he was using and then take another still and so on and so on, and then combined them to make an animation. He is considered to be one of the fathers of animation, because he worked on some really big projects. He used his mechanical animation techniques to make some of the first animated commercials, and also used in television episodes.

10 of 12 short artists -Tony Oursler

 Tony Oursler

Tony Oursler is a multimedia and installation artist.  He is well known for his hand made pieces of art. By hand made i mean that he sets up his videos up by hand and makes videos. He has done some exhibition where his projections are projected onto broken glass. The glass is what makes it a "hand made" video. He uses a projector and instead of a screen he uses different medians. In this case he is using glass. He has also used many other things like in New Zealand he Projected a massive skull onto one of their beautiful landscapes. People see these massive projections as great work and i can see why.

9 of 12 short artists - Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney born on March 25, 1967 is an American artist. He is a versatile artist that does pieces of art work in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. He first started doing work were he combined sculptural installations with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the Cremaster Cycle, which was a five film series described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema."

^{Drawing Restraint is an ongoing work. So basically what it is, is the body's muscle only grows with resistance. The body encounters resistance and the muscle breaks becomes stronger when it heals. So Barney created a film of this resistance occurring when he works on a piece.}

8 of 12 short artists - Mariko Mori

 Mariko Mori

Mariko Mori is a video and photographic Japanese artist. She first started studying  at the Bunka fashion college were she worked as a fashion model in the 1980's. Here much of her work was all about her. She took charge of her work and she was meant to be the main part of her work. She took control of her role in her work. An example of this is in the work she did called Play With Me. Here she takes on a role of an exotic alien in every day scenes. Here she is in front of a store and she is really into her character. not like many models that just get into character for a shot and then stop. She is in character through out her entire work.

Play With Me

She uses both Eastern mythology and western culture and intertwines them together in her work. She later moved to London to study at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. She has now let go of the realistic urban scenes and is now using more alien landscaping.  

7 of 12 short artists - Nam June Paik

 Nam June Paik

Nam June Pain was born in Korea on July 20, 1932 and past on January 29, 2006. Although he was born in Korea he was considered an American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first Video Artist. Early on in his life he was going to become a musician but soon saw that it wasn't for him. He began participating in the Neo-Data movement. His first exhibit was known as Exposition of Music- Electronic Television. His title indicates that he is transitioning from music to electronic television.

When he first exhibited his work it took place in a small location. People that went to see the art took nothing more than a glance at a room with TV sets. Now this is looked at as the starting point of  video art. He has done many pieces integrating television sets in most of his pieces. He has created everything from videos to sculptures made up of television sets. He created the Robot Family, and also created a turtle made up of entirely television sets. As he first started since he didn't have any of high technical software we have now to manipulate video, he would distort the image of an ongoing program with magnets. So that's how he started and later on moved on as technology progressed.

6 of 12 short artists - Bruce Nauman

 Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. He truly is a versatile artist because he works with all different types of this from Sculpture, neon, video, performance, photography, drawing, to printmaking. He is truly an artist to be reckon with. He likes to use a lot of play on words in his pieces such as his piece... \/

He likes to manipulate words and he loves how as an artist he can not only manipulate the words but also his viewers. He can make them feel and think a certain way just by looking at his art. Another piece that i really liked was the Human Need Desire piece. It is another neon piece that uses words as a form of art. It creates a form of desire and makes the viewer think of their wildest dreams and what they want. Once again he is not only manipulating the art but the person as well.

5 of 12 short artists - Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas is considered to be one of the most influential and important female video and performing artist to emerge from the late 1960's. One of her pieces that i really personally liked is the Juniper Tree exhibition. This exhibition is a sort of 3D scrapbook. It tells the story of the old fairy tale once told by the brothers Grim. It is a story about the different sides women have to show. It is about a malicious stepmother who is jealous about her step son that is going to inherit the families money and land. So she has a girl of her own and then kills her stepson so her daughter could inherit all  of the riches. Then through the love of the step son's mother he is resurrected and the step mother is killed. 

This exhibition shows and tells the story of the Juniper Tree. It tells the story with different parts of the tail for example it has a box with knives, and that signifies when the boy was killed by his stepmother. He was beheaded while reaching into a box for an apple. The stepmother dropped the heavy box top onto the boy chopping his head off. This is a really interesting piece because it shows the true type of person she is. She is a real feminist and shows it through her work.  

   

4 of 12 short artist - Gary Hill

 Gary Hill

Gary Hill is a video artist that is recognized for incorporating text into his videos. His videos offer a bizarre form of art in my opinion. Especially his piece called Happenstance (part on of many parts). This video has text integrated into the video and there is also a voice in the background throughout the entire video. The integration of text, video, music, and the voice forms together into something that to me seems more like a poem. The reason i get the impression of it being like a poem is because it repeats its self a lot of times saying the same thing in different ways. The reason why i think this piece is really interesting is because the text isnt just there placed and then taken off. The text actually has a reason in the video and is part of the video and takes different shapes and forms with, or against the beat of the music. This is a really interesting artist with a lot of great pieces.

3 of 12 short artist - Bill Viola

Bill  Viola was born on January 25, 1951. He is a contemporary video artist. He uses video, sound and new media, and is considered a leader in those who use this in there art pieces. He does work that focuses on human fundamentals such as birth, and death. He also does some pieces on human emotion. There is a set of four different videos that compose one piece that deal with that human aspect on of them is of five actors being astonished. He slows the video way down so the viewer can see how the emotion of the actors changes in detail.

Another one of his videos is called "The Greeting" in this video it is also slowed down in order to show the emotion of the people greeting each other. This video has no noise, but that might allow you to add you noise in the background. So that is a bit about bill viola.

THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD

Jon Thomson was born in London in 1969 and Alison Craighead was born in scotland in 1971. They have been working together since 1993 and they are artists that use video, sound and the internet to show how we view the world in this technological filled world. They use real time feeds in their art work. Such as from a search ingine or from a chat room and input these feeds into their art. Thomson teaches at the spade school of fine art in London and Craighead is a teacher at Goldsmiths University in London.

Decorative Newsfeed: This piece was created in 2009 and much like the Flat World and many of their other pieces they use a live feed of news headlines. These headlines come in and a projected onto a screen and the headlines move around forming different shapes. They can move in smooth beautiful formations or in sharp shapes. Can you imagine seeing the headline " Dozens of American soldiers wounded in Iran"  in a beautiful graceful swirl shape. This kinda reminds me of somebody yelling at you but they have a smile on their face. So i thought this piece was really interesting.

http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/decnews.html


Flat World:This piece was created in 2008, the first time i watched this i watched it on my little 10 inch laptop and for some reason my heart was pounding quite fast. This Flat World piece is a series of satellite shots from all over the world, and integrated is the voice of different peoples blogs. This piece has the voice of people all around the world from a young girl who is confused about life and cant wait to grow up. She has small problems but sees them as the biggest problems in the world. To a man who hasn't had sex in 1665 days. To a woman living in Iran constantly living in fear of a bombing. Never being able to let her guard down, she even has trouble sleeping. To a man fool of philosophical questions. This piece really made me feel something i don't know what but it was something.

  http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/flat_earth.html


Beacon : The Beacon first started broadcasting at midnight January 1, 2005. What this is, is a live ffed of things that people are searching on the web and it is projected onto a screen in a gallery. there is also an online version that can be seen anytime. This piece is really interesting because it gives you an insight of what people are searching up on the web, but you will never know who that person is. It broadcasts searches from all around the world in real time. It lets you go into the mind of the searcher and lets you create your own story about that person. You can come up with your own conclusion of what that person is like just by seeing that one word on the projection. You will never know who he or she is or why they are searching what they are searching, but you can let your imagination run wild, and isnt that the true meaning of art? To let the audience come up with their own story behind the piece.

http://www.tate.org.uk/40artists40days/thomson_craighead.html

Tetsuya Noda

Tetsuya Noda was born in 1940 in Kumamoto Preficture. He is famous for his prints. He is a print maker, now for those of you who don't know what print making is exactly. Print making is when the artist creates a sort of stamp and places ink on the stamp and then places it on paper. The way they can do it is by getting a piece of wood and placing a sort of rubber ontop of it. Then they first sketch the drawing onto the rubber and then carv out the negative. After the artist has created the stamp he can print as many prints as he wants using a variety of color. Tetsuya also used to paint but that practice became unsuccessful so he turned to printmaking as his main focus. Now I've done print making in art class for high school and let me tell you it is not an easy thing to do. First you have to sketch the drawing onto the wood and then carve it out. When you are carving the wood out it makes it really difficult to get some of the details. So in order to do impressive work like Mr Noda one needs to be a highly skilled artist with great talents. So here is some of his work

Now if we just look at this piece we can see that even though it is a print it has a great deal of details. Even the texture around the person has nice details. Noda uses wood to make his prints and he also uses silk sheets. He likes to use these things because it adds texture to the background of his prints without him actually having to do it. Noda is very interesting because all of his prints are a represintaion of his life. If he is at a place or location that he likes he will take a picture of it and turn that picture into a print. His art is like what we might consider to be a diary.

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This is another example of what Noda prints look like. He basically turns e erything he sees into a print. Now I don't know if this is a good thing because of the whole concept of supply and demand. If he continues to spit out hundreds of prints one erything that he sees or experiences then who is going to want it if there are hundreds of them. Something that is rare people want but if they're a dime a dozen then people are going to apreciate them less and less. So in my opinion he should tone it down a bit and focus on doing big pieces and not a lot of little ones. And by big and small I don't mean size but big as in meaningfully. So overal Noda is awesome just does way too many pieces.

Here are some more:

LACMA !!!!!!!

Ok so i arrived at LACMA and i got in for free which was pretty cool. i got in for free because i had a Bank of America account. i guess you get in the first weekend of the month if you have an account. I had never been there before so i didn't know what to expect. The first building we went into was the 5th building, this building was huge and i didn't really know where to go. This museum was completely different than the Norton Simon museum. At Norton you kinda know where to go but not here. Well i found a room and there was some really nice stuff. I noticed that the guards here were really different from the Norton museum as well. At LACMA there was one security for one giant section of the museum, and as for Norton they had a security for every 5 ft of the museum. So here i felt a little more comfortable to roam around and do my thing.

Later on in my adventure i found myself in the Japanese art building. This building is incredible. I mean even the building itself was a work of art. i really liked how they made the building look as if the wall were those doors that people change behind of.

All the art inside was interesting. To tell you the truth i didn't really like anything on the way up the building until i got to the top. When i reached the upper level of the building i found paintings that had great detail and emotion in them. For example on one of them there was a group of people crossing a bridge. They weren't only crossing the bridge but they were fighting wind and rain. They were going against the rain rather than with it. I think the artist was saying that their people fight for their path. They fight for where they're going and what they have. Something else that really caught my eye were a pair of  Guardian Animals. These two sculptures were carved from wood. They are believed to protect the surrounding areas from harm and evil. The one on the left is based off a lion and is saying the first letter of the sanskrit alphabet ah, and the one on the right is based of a dog and is saying the last letter of the sanskrit alphabet un. Because of this it is believed that the entire universe is held between these two guardian animals and they will protect it. One on each end, the beginning and the end.

Next Building we went into was one with American art in it. The first couple of floors were closed so we couldn't see what was on those floors so we went to the third floor and there is were we found some incredible  art. The art there was much like the art in the Norton museum. lots of paintings of women, not so much nakedness though but a lot of paintings of the human body. One of them that i found interesting was the one titled  manly pursuits by Thomas Eakins.

 I find this painting very interesting because we don't see the faces of the wrestlers but yet we can see that they are fatigued to the limit. you can only imagine how long they have been training  or wrestling. It seems as if these two men are extremely exhausted and have given it their all. We usually get all that information from the face of the character but here there is no face to analyze and we are still able to get that from the body language of the characters.  

This entire experience was one for the books. It was extremely fun, and I'm planning on going back pretty soon and doing it all again but this time with more time to spare.

C YA

Real?

Ok so in class on Monday we had a really insightful deep conversation of what real or reality was. Is real physical, mental, psychological, or hypothetical. In my opinion reality is based on perspective. To tell you the truth I'm not really the artist type I'm more of the nerdy science type of guy so to me reality is all based on ones perspective. For example getting into the touchy subject of religion... To some God is real. Jesus is real. To those people God listens to their prayers at night. Guide them when they are lost and heals them when they are wounded. That is a reality to those people based on their believes and their perspective. Not based on physical but si souli their perspective. God is real and that's that. To others there is no God. Some believe that the blue sky full of clouds is just that a sky full of clouds and nothing more. To them God is not there, he is not real, and that is their reality based on their perspective, based on the way THEY look at it. So now getting into the science aspect of reality. Like perspective each perspective changes relative to where one stands. For example if I'm at a train station sitting on a bench, and see a train pass me at 45 miiles per hour. In that train I see a person throwing a ball at 15 miles per hour. Relative to where I stand my reality is that the ball is traveling at 60 miles per hour, because we add the speed of the train and the speed at Which the person threw it. Now relative to the person that threw the ball the ball is only moving at a speed of 15 miles per hour. He doesn't see himself traveling at 45 miles per hour so he could only measure that the ball is going 15. So who's right ? Me or the train passenger? We both are. That is why reality in my opinion changes on the person's perspective. This comes from einstines theory of relativity. According to him the reality of everything can be changed relative to ones perspective. Time, mass, lengths, measurments are all based on perspective. The only thing that cannot change is light and the speed of light. I would explain but it's too long. Ok that's my insight feel free to ask Q's.

Norton Simon Museum

The Norton Simon museum was a lot bigger than I expected. The first room that I walked into was gallery IV, the room with all of the religious paintings. The first painting that caught my eye was one where Jesus was being depicted as the laughing stock. It showed the time when Jesus was being tortured by soldiers. This painting captures His expression, and the interesting part is that he seems to be sad rather than in pain. Even though he has being tortured He doesn't seem to be in pain. I think he feels sad for the soldiers that are doing this to him. The single candle light at the center of the painting seems to bring the entire painting together. While the soldiers are all looking at Jesus he is the only one looking at the light coming from the candle. He is the only one that can see the light. 

                                      Christ Crowned with Thorns by Matthias Stom

The next painting that caught my eye was in the same room. It was David slaying Goliath. This painting is showing the moment when David is about to slay the great Goliath. He is shown holding Goliath's sword standing powerfully over the defeated body of Goliath. Even though there isn't much blood in the painting, the red of David's cape makes the scene seem bloody. He is holding the sword above his head ready to swing at any moment. what I think is interesting about this painting is that since it shows David holding the sword over his head, it seems that he will be contemplating whether or not to follow through forever. He will always be stuck in that possession, and you can make your own conclusion. You can conclude that he decided to change his mind and let him go, or you can imagine that he swung that sword with all his might and decapitated the great Goliath. Whatever you conclude, is your decision. That is the beauty of art. There are endless possibilities to what happened after the captured moment. Here's the Painting... What do you think happened next?

David Slaying Goliath, By: Peter Paul Rubens

There are two heroes in these paintings, but they are depicted very differently. In the Christ Crowned with Thorns, Christ is the hero but he is the one being tortured and defeated. He is at the receiving end of the soldiers torture. On the other hand we have David slaying Goliath, where David, the hero is doing the slaying. David is the one giving the punishment rather than receiving it. Both are depicted differently, one as the victim and the other as the aggressor, but they are both seeing as heroes, or the "good guys". I find it interesting how their actions are so greatly different, yet the role they play in the paintings are the same. So that's my input in these two paintings... Hope you liked it.    

Venice Graffiti is amazing!!

 Okay so my experience at Venice Beach was one for the books. From the drive there to the drive back was awesome. On my way there, i could already start see the difference in culture from the O.C. Even though we weren't too far away from home, there is a sudden change in the architecture of the buildings and definite change in the people. I went to Venice Beach with my girlfriend Valerie and her aunt Evelyn. We got there and we didn't really know where the walls were, but all we had to do was follow the smell of spray paint. We followed our nose, and eventually got to the walls. We got our permits and were assigned a wall. At first i didn't know what i was going to paint, so i just needed to get the first spray out of the way. I started to spray and i started to paint this funny looking character. At the end i really liked my end results. Even though it wasn't as good as some of the other art work there. I think i held my own. I also liked Valerie's tree. It was awesome. I now see why graffiti artists express themselves this way. its not only beautiful, but its lots of FUN!!      

This is my little Character

Left: Evelyn's city, Middle: Val's tree, Right: me

I think the reason this goofy looking guy came out of me is because it reflects my  character. I'm a really goofy guy. I call this piece "What a goof"

John Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)

John Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). He was born in London, England, in 1775. His parents were William Turner and Mary Marshall.  His dad was a barber and a wig maker. His mother was mentally unstable. It is believed that she became this way because of his sister's premature death. His mom soon followed his sisters path five years after being committed into a mental hospital. As a boy, Turner received very little schooling. The farthest his education went was his father who taught him how to read. Other than that he only studied and practiced art. His mother dying and his dad being a wig maker? Man this isn't the typical life of your every day ordinary kid. Then again, this isn't your ordinary kid.

Turner's artistic career started at a very young age. When he was 10 years old he went to live with his uncle and this is where he started to develop his interest in the arts. A year later he began attending a school in Margate. By the age of 13, the drawings he had created at home would go on display for sale on his dad's shop window. His life was devoted entirely to his art. By the age of 15 he received a rare honor. One of his paintings was going to be exhibited at the Royal Academy. The Royal Academy of Art is a privately funded institution led by respected artists and architects. He was later accepted into the academy and after only one year of study, he exhibited his first watercolor painting in the summer exhibition. Now this is very impressive. He had only been there for one year and already he was exhibiting art work? By the age of 18 he had his own studio. Before the age of 20 he had people that made reproductions of his paintings eagerly wanting to buy them. In 1791 he exhibited his first oil painting, Fisherman at Sea, and exhibited a painting almost every year after that till his death. Unlike many artists of his era, and many artists after his era, he was successful throughout his career.

                                                                     Fishermen at Sea

• We can see how he depicts the sea's power over man. How the ocean can effortlessly throw man around like a piece of paper. In this piece man is at the mercy of the oh so powerful sea. Man, despite all of its technological advances is nothing but a speck of dust compared to the overpowering sea.

This is why he became so famous. Turner was an artist that liked to show the power of mother nature. Be it an earthquake, the power of the sea, rain, sunlight, or a building on fire. This is where he drew most of his inspiration form. Because of his incredible reputation and pieces of art work  he was seen to some as an "Art genius". When he began to tour around Europe, specifically Venice, is when he did  some of his finer work.

Later on in Turner's older years he allowed no one to watch him while he painted. The only person he let watch was his father. He stopped going to the meetings at the academy. People wouldn't see him for months. He basically isolated himself from everyone. He traveled, but only by himself. He also stopped selling most of his paintings. So his later years weren't his happiest years. He died on Dec. 19, 1851.Turner was mostly known for his oil art work, but he is regarded as one of the founders of English watercolor landscape painting. It is sad to think that such a great person that contributed so much to the artistic world had such lonely last years. Then again he always had his art, and for some people that's more than enough.


Here are some of his most famous works:

                                                         Dido Building Carthage

                                                              Rain, Steam and Speed                                                                                                                                             

                                                                        Burial at Sea 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner
www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/