Sidi Bou Said, Tunis
J.M.W. Turner - Fighting Temeraire
Turner and calm waters seem contradictory terms, but his Fighting Temeraire exhibits the quiet intensity associated with the calm after a storm. The water may be still, but the wild orange and red brushstrokes have come to symbolize the passing of the British Naval era. While the Dutch started to give landscape a new meaning, Turner takes it to its most emotionally charged level, and gives his brushstrokes full power to evoke the indescribable.