- Mostly known for elevating landscape painting to the level of historic paintings. - Turner was also one of the first to start using abstraction. With the [[Influence of Photography on Art]] Turner realised that he had to adapt. - Turner used transparent oils and created some cool new effects in his paintings. ![[Snow Storm 1842 - JMW Turner.png]] --- At the time Turner was painting the remarkable Snowstorm, photography was beginning to revolutionize our ability to capture a view of the world and convert it to a two-dimensional surface. - [[Reductionism in Art and Brain Science]]