Art · Skopia

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6 works

The Fighting Temeraire

1839 · National Gallery, London

A steam tug hauls a Trafalgar warship off to be broken up. Turner refused to sell the picture and left it to the nation.

★ 9.1

1840 · Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Boston

Turner took the Zong case, where a slaver threw its human cargo overboard for the insurance money, and set it under his most beautiful sunset.

★ 8.2

1891 · Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Monet painted the same stacks near his house at every hour and season, so that what changes from canvas to canvas is only the light.

★ 7.3

1860 · Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Not a single figure anywhere in it. Church painted this burning sky in 1860, and people have read the Civil War into it since.

★ 6.8

1903 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia

Monet painted Westminster across the river again and again because what he actually wanted was the fog, not the building.

★ 6.6

1912 · National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff

Monet went to Venice late and found a city already doing what he had spent fifty years trying to paint.

★ 6.3