As rapid industrialization and social and political upheaval gripped much of Europe in the 19th century, J. M. W. Turner trailblazed a dizzyingly modern style of painting that suited his changing times. This video introduces the dramatic compositions in “Turner’s Modern World,” which explores how the artist married contemporary subjects to a radical approach that anticipated artistic innovations still some hundred years in the future.
Produced by Black Math.
The accompanying music is “Cloaked in Moonlight,” composed by Jamie Salisbury and based on Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 (Moonlight Sonata).