Art ASMR 🎧🖌 Watch J. M. W. Turner’s marvelously turbulent seascape, “The Junction of the Thames and the Medway” come to life 🌊 Based on notes in the artist’s sketchbooks, this stormy scene depicts the wide mouth of the Thames joining the North Sea, where the smaller River Medway further churns the waves… To heighten the storm’s impact, Turner artfully manipulated the lighting in this composition. The sails at the right, for instance, are brilliantly lit against the dark clouds. In actuality,

Take a closer look at J.M.W. Turner’s remarkable work The Pass of St. Gotthard, near Faido with Jennifer Tonkovich, Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator of Drawings and Prints, as she shares its unique connections to art criticism. This work is one of our Collection Highlights we are sharing weekly! Turner executed this drawing in 1843 on commission from John Ruskin, who became his most ardent patron. The subject is the mountain pass at St. Gotthard, in the Swiss alps between Lucerne and Lugano. Every

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