“Painting Is a Strange Business”: A Discussion of Turner’s Technique

Mark Aronson, deputy director and chief conservator, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

 

Turner was famously secretive about his painting techniques, and some of his radical technical experiments challenge conservators charged to care for them, but close examination and scientific study reveal an artist who could be both traditional and mysterious.

 

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