Happy 250th, JMW Turner. ​ A visionary of light and landscape, Turner’s influence continues to shape art today. ​ 🌅 Tonight at sunset, we'll be admiring the skies over Thanet, which Turner called 'the loveliest in all Europe.'​ Thank you Dame Tracey Emin for your tribute to JMW Turner and his legacy in your poem, 'For Turner', on the 250th anniversary of his birth. 📽️ Chris Vickers #Turner250 | Turner Contemporary

Celebrating 250 years of one of the most influential artists in history, J.M.W. Turner. | Newfields

“Light is therefore color.” – J. M. W. Turner 🌅 Admired for his stunning light effects and master renditions of natural landscapes, J. M. W. Turner dominated British landscape painting throughout the first half of the 19th century. In this painting from 1841, Turner depicts an episode from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” in which the sea god Glaucus hopes for the favor of the beautiful ocean nymph Scylla. Here, Scylla flees from the outstretched arms of her would-be lover, who has been transformed into