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J.M.W. Turner
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(19 ratings)
62 students

J.M.W. Turner

A Poet of Light
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 7/2026
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • After taking this course students will be able to see and appreciate the beauty of the world around us much better.
  • The course enhances human development.
  • Increased appreciation of Art
  • The course promotes self-learning.

Course content

1 section • 13 lectures • 1h 22m total length

  • Introduction1:51

    Explore J. M. W. Turner's development from Claude Lorrain's influence to moonlight paintings, covering landscapes, seascapes, historical subjects, 1833 Loire Valley watercolors, and 1830s works as a precursor to art.

  • JMW Turner Lecture 25:32

    Observe how Turner channels Claude, revealing horizon lines hidden behind mountains and unifying sky, land, trees, ships, and figures into a cohesive landscape.

  • JMW Turner Lecture 38:47

    Turner's Bay of Naples by moonlight is presented as a fundamental work that triggers modern art, with luminous moonlight, blended yellows and blues, and careful rendering of ships.

  • JMW Turner Lecture 44:19

    Trace J. M. Turner's early development from a boy artist guided by his father’s support, through Royal Academy training and topographical studies shaping his marine scenes.

  • JMW Turner Lecture 56:37

    Turner surveys historic allegories, religious and genre scenes, and landscapes, including seascapes, cityscapes, and ruins, while masterfully rendering storms, topography, and atmospheric perspective across nature and architecture.

  • JMW Turner Lecture 65:07

    Explore j. m. turner’s historical paintings, blending allegories with observed events like the battle of trafalgar and the growth of the british empire through dramatic landscapes and light.

  • JMW Turner Lecture 77:47

    Turner merges topography with studio study to render rock formations, mountains, valleys, and glaciers in luminous color, shaping clouds, avalanches, and eruptions within precise horizons and atmosphere.

  • JMW Turner Lecture 89:50

    Explore Turner’s dramatic marine scenes, from open ocean waves and shipwrecks to stormy skies, and learn a practical step-by-step canal painting inspired by his techniques.

  • JMW Turner Lecture 94:28

    Explore how Turner’s fighting Temeraire allegorizes generational change, as the old ship is towed by a steam tug toward its breaking up, set against a sunset and reflective water.

  • JMW Turner Lecture 108:57

    Turner transforms castles and landscapes into jewels of light, turning masses into a festival of color in a new romantic style. The lecture highlights Windsor Castle and moonlit reflections.

  • JMW Turner Lecture 112:30

    Delve into J.M.W. Turner through lecture 11 in the J.M.W. Turner course, presenting a concise overview of the artist's work.

  • JMW Turner Lecture 126:32

    Explore Turner's late paintings from 1835 to 1850, tracing the beginnings of modern art through minimalistic painting, atmospheric landscapes, and dramatic weather.

  • Course Catalog9:46

    Explore the J.M.W. Turner course catalog and discover a curated overview of the artist's works.

Requirements

  • The only knowledge and tools required for this course is an interest and desire to learn more about art.

Description

This course is on the art of J.M.W. Turner. Many people, including your professor, consider Turner to be one of, if not the, greatest artist of all time. He spent his lifetime looking at the earth and painting it with amazing sensibility and knowledge. His work spans a range of themes and a range across time. He spans from the classical to the modern. The ultimate goal of this course is to let this artist guide us and teach us how to better see the beauty of the world around us. I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone who wants to learn to appreciate and enjoy art, and the art of J.M.W. Turner in particular.

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