Exploring Turner, Part 2: Invention




National Gallery of Art | Audio show

Summary: November 2007, Art Talk - Guest: Ian Warrell, curator of 18th- and 19th-century British art, Tate Britain, London, Host: Franklin Kelly, senior curator, National Gallery of Art. In this two-part podcast, Franklin Kelly, National Gallery of Art senior curator, and Tate Museum curator Ian Warrell discuss the life and work of J. M. W. Turner. Here, focusing on Turner's inventiveness, they talk about how the artist positioned himself within the history of art, the range of his subjects, and his open-ended process of discovery. In part 1, they discuss Turner's process.